Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.