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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.