I'll always go back to the stage.

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.

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.

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!'

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

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

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