Quotes from Nathan Lane

I never like seeing myself on screen.

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

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

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.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!'

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

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.

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