Quotes from Nelsan Ellis

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 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 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.

Being different makes you beautiful.

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.

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.

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.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

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.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

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 was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

Let gay people get married.

Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Being different gives the world color.

My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

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.