“I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.”

“I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.”