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.

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

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

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

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.

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