I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'
With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.
I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.
I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.
I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it.
I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.
I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.
Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.
I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.
While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.
I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.
Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.
I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.
When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.
I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.
