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.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

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

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

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

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.