By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I w….

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation..

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer..

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It d….

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes r….

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in bein….

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual lif….

I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew..

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North..

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out..

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device..

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England..

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the ….

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them..

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that a….

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them….

In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it….

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just i….

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are s….

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a….

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't….