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.

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

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

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!'

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

My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!