Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.
If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.
In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?
Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.
We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.
I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy.
I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
'Perception' was a different show than 'Will & Grace'. 'Will & Grace' was obviously a different show than anything I'd done before.