I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
That’s my secret Cap: I’m always angry.
I haven’t had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it’s a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that’s a gift. That’s rare.
Tom McCarthy said to me, ‘Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That’s the real feat, man.’
I don’t understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.
Graduates, I’m asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You’re the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.
We’re clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that’s keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry’s hold on our political system. That’s what we need to change.
Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you’re in your glory – where you’re really cracking – and moments where you’re not.
The problem to me is violence. It’s not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
I live a bourgeois life.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
I like to disappear in the parts I play.
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
Literally, I think I’ve quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.
Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.
I didn’t really have any interest in producing anything.
We are turning our grief into winnable actions.