I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.