I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

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

I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

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 think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

Every journey starts with fear.