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Top 30 Nathan Lane Quotes (2025 Update)

Nathan Lane Quote: “People have to do things in their own time, and that’s what I did.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “Look, I’m over 40, I’m single, and I work in musical theater – you do the math!”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That’s all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “The reason I was in most of the movies I’ve done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.”

7. “The reason I was in most of the movies I’ve done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.”

8. “My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I have my aluminum siding business, and that’s going like a house afire.”

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

— Nathan Lane

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

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.”

11. “I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “People always think I’m Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it’s going to annoy someone.”

15. “I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it’s going to annoy someone.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I’m one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.”

20. “The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I’ll always go back to the stage.”

21. “I’ll always go back to the stage.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I’m still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.”

22. “I’m still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.”

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Nathan Lane Quote: “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.’”

23. “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.’”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “What about Broadway? Yes, I’m involved with a new musical based on ‘The Adams Family.’”

26. “What about Broadway? Yes, I’m involved with a new musical based on ‘The Adams Family.’”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “It’s a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.”

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

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I don’t know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.”

31. “I don’t know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.”

32. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.”

— Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane Quote: “I never like seeing myself on screen.”

33. “I never like seeing myself on screen.”

— Nathan Lane

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