Nathan Lane Quotes
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.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
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We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world.
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The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
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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.
