89 Quotes by Nathan Lane

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

Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That’s all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

Look, I’m over 40, I’m single, and I work in musical theater – you do the math!

If you’ve seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.

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

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

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 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.

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.