Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without there being something where like, in the case of Annie Hathaway's character, her character ends up having Parkinson's, you know? To me, I feel like that's love, you know? Like to me. So every movie has to have that kind of sense of that.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.