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 have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

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.

Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.

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

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

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.