Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane
Nathan Laneis an American stage, film and television actor and writer. He is known for his roles as Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, his voice work in Stuart Little as Snowbell the cat and The Lion King as Timon the meerkat, and his recurring roles on Modern Family, The Good Wife, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth3 February 1956
CityJersey City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
'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 dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.
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.
A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
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'll always go back to the stage.
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.'
The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz
There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me