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But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Michael Korda
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
Robert Morley
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Al Pacino
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
John Hewson
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Marcus Valerius Martial
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Barry Goldwater
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
Sean Hayes