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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.