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  • My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

    Mom   My Mom   Call Me  
  • There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

    "‘The Producers' Nathan Lane: On His Buddy Broderick, Mel Brooks and the Joys of Being an Honorary Jew". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
  • 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.

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

    Done   Reason   Theater  
  • The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

    "Grasping For Stardom With The Success of 'Birdcage,' Nathan Lane Has Hopes (Again) For An Elusive Broadway Prize" by Joan Vadeboncoeur, Syracuse Herald American, p. 25, April 21, 1996.
  • 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!'

    Moving   Gay   Attention  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I'll always go back to the stage.

    Stage  
    "Mouse Confusion". Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 19, 1997.
  • Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

    Math   Musical   Theatre  
  • 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!'

    Hate   Love You   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

    Joining   Parades   Born  
    "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
  • 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.

    Book   Character   Names  
  • People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

    Thinking   Names   People  
    "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
  • 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

    Gay   Men   Thinking  
  • My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

    Brother   Thinking   Play  
    "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.
  • 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.

    "Laughter in the Dark". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com. April 19, 2009.
  • People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

    People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    "Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, & Nathan Lane Interview - SWING VOTE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 29, 2008.
  • I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

    Matter   Facts   Annoying  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.
  • A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

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

    "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
  • I never like seeing myself on screen.

    Seeing   Screens  
    "Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick Are The Producers". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. December 15, 2005.
  • Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.

    Real   Fake   Hollywood  
  • I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

    Strong   Inspire   Way  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

    Stage   Wells   Audience  
    "This Is A Very Mice Story!". Sunday Tasmanian, January 4, 1998.
  • It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

  • 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.

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

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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