I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

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.'

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I come from a traditional theater background.