Nathan Lane Quotes
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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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!'
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.
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I'll always go back to the stage.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him – I'm Nathan Lane?