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Life is a grand party.
I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.
I am very much in love with no one in particular.
Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.
I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.
I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.
When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.
I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.
Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.
There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.
If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.
The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn't be gay. I've been attracted mostly to 'she's' but I've been with many people and I'm open to love wherever it can be found.
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.
I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.
I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
I’ve had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers’in my early youth — my period of exploration. I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.
I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.
When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight.
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.
Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.