Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.