Quotes by Nathan Lane

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

“Yes, its throbbing, ... And I mean that in the nicest possible way.”

“They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those for whom they would give their blood.”

“All that stuff was fun, but Im glad we didnt rethink the show. It is what it is, a throwback that isnt like anything else out there. It has that deliberate, artificial feel to it. Its something from the soundstage era. People havent seen that for a while, so it seems fresh. It came along at the right time.”

“Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and youll be the costumer who cried. Oh, poor William! Fourteen houses and no boyfriend!”

“Its hard to top this. There is no bigger deal in jazz.”

“Im not going to wear this in the show, ... Have you met my finger puppet Melvin?”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

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.

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

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

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