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.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Don't be absent from your own life.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?