To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Don't be absent from your own life.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.