Quotes from Guillermo Diaz

I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.

I want to be the bad guy.

Madonna's always going to be number one, but I'm definitely a Britney fan.

When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

I learned to really pursue things I really wanted. If it is just for the money, that's not going to work out. You have to like it.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

It's always nice to do the flashbacks. That's what's so great about 'Scandal' is that we get to do flashbacks and then keep figuring out and discovering more things about our characters that make them fuller.

I hit Instagram and Twitter as soon as I wake up. And then I check my texts and emails. It's funny that I check social media before I check my email.

I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really speak English, so I don't think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil.

'Fresh' was maybe the third audition that I had after I got an agent, so I was crazy excited when I booked it.

It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.

I'm really into horror art, so I feel, like, a dark side in that way.

I'm a huge horror film and sci-fi fan.

I would love to do more horror films.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

I have phone sessions with my therapist, who is in New York, constantly, just to talk and get it out.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

I would totally do a Madonna or Lady Gaga video.

I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

When I was growing up, we didn't have 'Will & Grace.' The one gay character was Monroe from 'Too Close For Comfort' - and he wasn't even gay! At least they didn't say he was. Same with Mr. Furley from 'Three's Company.' You know, these were the characters that people would always make fun of.