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Let gay people get married.
I'd always dabbled in acting.
Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.
Being different makes you beautiful.
I had no intention of being an actor.
Being different gives the world color.
Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.
I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.
At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.
But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.
There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.
Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.
Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.
You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.
I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!
It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.
The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.
Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.
I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.
I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.