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!'

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.

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

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

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