I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me