Nathan Lane Quotes

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

I dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

I'll always go back to the stage.