Nathan Lane Quotes

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

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

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

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

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

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

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

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

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.

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

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!'

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.

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

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

I never like seeing myself on screen.

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.

I'll always go back to the stage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.