Nathan Lane Birdcage Quotes & Sayings

Wishes, wishes.
Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true — Roger Zelazny

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

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along. — Susan Meissner

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others. — Usama Ejaz

In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act. — Bryant McGill

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — Neil Diamond

The best of you are those who are best to the women — Anonymous

He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together. — Markus Zusak

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

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. — Ronald Knox

Be the person your pet rat thinks you are! — Diana Hockley

Now in the thriving season of love
when the bud relents into flower,
your love turned absence has turned once more,
and if my comforts fall soft as rain
on her flutters, it is because
love grows by what it remembers of love — Lisel Mueller

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