I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.