It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.