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

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Nathan Lane
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 3
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Jersey City
New Jersey
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'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
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I'll always go back to the stage.
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Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.
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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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Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.
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There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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