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

Nathan Lane

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Nathan Lane
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 3
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Jersey City
New Jersey
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.
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I'll always go back to the stage.
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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.
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