Actor

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

I have the kind of face that people want to punch.

I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.

That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.