Quotes from Leslie Jordan

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the best audition should get the part. My problem is getting anybody to hire me for anything other than queens.

I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'

I love, love, love South Florida.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

I am not a drag queen.

In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney and I have got up to!

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.

I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

You almost had to have grown up in the church like I did to realize how dark that is, how dark it is to be a kid and be told that God hates you or that there's something wrong with you.

I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.

I'm a worker bee.

I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: 'Honey, you've got an audition today. Keep your feet on the ground, O.K.?'

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.