I find that the best way into things is to open my heart up to it and allow it to be as truthful and honest as I can be, and I can make it. It's hard to do that; it's hard to open yourself up to something.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.