Nathan Lane

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“I never like seeing myself on screen.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.”