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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

About Attractive Because Committed
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

Actual Bring Cinema Even
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If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

About Anything Enough Get
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Am Day Establish Established
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.

Bits Complicated Country Estate
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I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

Australia Back Because Exotic
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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Everybody has something to conceal.

Everybody Something Conceal
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Point Making money Big shot
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Actor Need Stabilize Personality
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There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

Never seems Trouble Brewing around Bar
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The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Only reason Million dollars Business
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Almost Because Beyond Clearly
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I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Dreamt Movie Musical Long time
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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Philosophy High minded Means Love
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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Love is what you've been through with somebody

Love Been through Somebody
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Think If women Children In charge
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You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
Always Better Get Getting
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Dropped Certain desires Friends Death
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

About Cool Dinner Earning
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Poet Believe Leads Died
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It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

Impossible Sit quietly Throwing
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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Against Another Doing Feature
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Clue Man Microcosm Sense
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

America Black Black America Filmmakers
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Facing Fact Faith Lots
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We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Anything Bus Contestants Each
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Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.

Get Grocery GroceryStore Meet
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If I don't wear something for a year, I give it away.

Away Give Something Wear
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Day Done Every Get
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Around Guitar Itself Music
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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Compliments Easily Extent I Think
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Because Between Connection Consciousness
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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Addict Becomes Boring Controls
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Because Expect Failure Foolish
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Front Helps Internal Just
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Artist Attention Kind Motivation
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