We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.