Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.