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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

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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

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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

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My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.' — Nathan Lane

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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

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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown. — Nathan Lane

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

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

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

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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood. — Nathan Lane

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

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I never like seeing myself on screen. — Nathan Lane

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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me. — Nathan Lane

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If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking. — Nathan Lane

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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

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

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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that. — Nathan Lane

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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. — Nathan Lane

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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. — Nathan Lane

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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant. — Nathan Lane

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

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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

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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.' — Nathan Lane

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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

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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. — Nathan Lane

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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

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

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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!' — Nathan Lane

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Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best. — Nathan Lane

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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. — Nathan Lane

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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan. — Nathan Lane

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

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It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years. — Nathan Lane

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He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen. — Nathan Lane

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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other. — Nathan Lane

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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. — Nathan Lane

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I'll always go back to the stage. — Nathan Lane

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

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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

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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

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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? — Nathan Lane

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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. — Nathan Lane

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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

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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish. — Nathan Lane

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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