"I have to take my shirt off a lot,"
"Not that I mind it. But I think there is definitely a danger of getting lumped into that category, the beefcake type.
It's funny, because of all the other things that you do, of course, they remember when you take your shirt off."
It's all well and good to talk about AIDS at arms length, but we're right up in there,"
"After my character had sex for the first time, I talked to some friends who said they watched it with a whole group - they gasped and said, 'Oh my god, oh my god.' Well, guess what, that's life."
"I was in a Duane Reade recently," he recalls, "and this really big, heavyset truck driver-y kind of guy looks at me and says, 'I just want to tell you I really love the show. My wife and kids love it.' When I thought about the implication of that, it was really sort of amazing. --By Erik Meers