Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.