A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

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.

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

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

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

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.