Guillermo Diaz

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

“I want to be the bad guy.”

“I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.”

“It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It's important to work really hard to get what you want.”

“I'm just a big old nerd. I'm not that cool guy at all.”

“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 did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.”

“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.”