My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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.
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz
People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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.