A biography for Leslie Jordanhasn’t been written yet.
“My success on the road is predicated on my success in Hollywood.”
“I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.”
“I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.”
“There isn't a lot I can do on this planet, but I can be funny.”
“Lesbian humor is nothing like gay men's humor. We're sillier.”
“We've got to be kind.”
“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've done every series that had gone down the toilet.”
“I won an Emmy in 2006!”
“I love, love, love South Florida.”
“In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: 'Honey, you are a ministry.' It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.”
“All my boyfriends are in their 20s.”
“I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone.”
“I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.”
“Beverley Leslie was closeted. I'm not closeted. He was a little homophobic. He's a social climber. I'm nothing like that. He had a mean streak. I don't think I'm mean at all.”
“I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.”
“I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.”
“Honey, I conquered Netflix. I watched 'em all.”
“I wasn't what you would envision for the son of an Army man. I liked doll baby clothes and twirled a baton. But my aunts and uncles tell me how much he loved me.”
“I do so many cruises out of Miami, all the RSVP ones. And I'm on the cruises out of Fort Lauderdale all the time. I'm always doing cruise after cruise out of there.”