Nathan Lane Quotes

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

  Nathan Lane

  Thinking, Healthy, Be Who You Are

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Nathan Lane

  Math, Musical, Theatre

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

  Nathan Lane

  Done, Reason, Theater

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

  Nathan Lane

  Matter, Facts, Annoying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

  Nathan Lane

  Vodka, Shots, Hoping For The Best

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

  Nathan Lane

  Joining, Parades, Born

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage Performance, Theatre, Video

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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

  Nathan Lane

  School, Kids, Fats

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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

  Nathan Lane

  Clown, Sad Clown

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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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.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage, Wells, Audience

  "This Is A Very Mice Story!". Sunday Tasmanian, January 4, 1998.

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

  Nathan Lane

  Grateful, Once In A Lifetime, Kind

  "‘The Producers' Nathan Lane: On His Buddy Broderick, Mel Brooks and the Joys of Being an Honorary Jew". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  Cutting, Successful, Order

  Boston Globe, July 11, 1999.

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

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Careers, Want

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• Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.

  Nathan Lane

  Real, Fake, Hollywood

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

  Nathan Lane

  House, Aluminum, Siding

  "Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, & Nathan Lane Interview - SWING VOTE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 29, 2008.

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  Thinking, Careers, People

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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

  Nathan Lane

  Figure Skating, Cliche, Figures

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

  Nathan Lane

  Kevin

  "Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, & Nathan Lane Interview - SWING VOTE". Press conference, collider.com. July 29, 2008.

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

  Nathan Lane

  People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Nathan Lane

  Years, Competition

  "Grasping For Stardom With The Success of 'Birdcage,' Nathan Lane Has Hopes (Again) For An Elusive Broadway Prize" by Joan Vadeboncoeur, Syracuse Herald American, p. 25, April 21, 1996.

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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!'

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Gay, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Nathan Lane

  Hard Times, Men, Drunk

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

  Nathan Lane

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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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.

  Nathan Lane

  People, Catholic, Church

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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