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 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.

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.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

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.

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