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

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

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

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

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

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.

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

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

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

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.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

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

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.

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

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

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

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

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

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.

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

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!'

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

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!'

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Fear of failure is fiction face this fact and fear will fall.

Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.

We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

My philosophy has always been, "do what you love and the money will follow."

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

To walk across the street is a risk.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.