Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.
I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.
When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
You have to be a tough gay person in the South.
You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with.
Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
I was raised by women.
I can't approach a character with judgment.
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.
