In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.
In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the best audition should get the part. My problem is getting anybody to hire me for anything other than queens.
I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.
I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.
Honey, I conquered Netflix. I watched 'em all.
One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'
At one time, when I was younger, I exercised regularly and had a 27-inch waist.
I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.
Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.
It's so nice that today, young gay men have a choice about who they want to hang out with.
I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.
You know, you learned that very young in American culture that the feminine boys don't do well. And yet, I had a dad who was a lieutenant colonel in the army. My dad was a man's man, but he still adored me. And somehow in the midst of that, I still grew up hating the sissy in me.
All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.
I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.
I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.
I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.
The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.
I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'
My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.
Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.
