I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

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 am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

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

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

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.