We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.