I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.