I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.