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
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.
All that stuff was fun, but I'm glad we didn't rethink the show. It is what it is, a throwback that isn't like anything else out there. It has that deliberate, artificial feel to it. It's something from the soundstage era. People haven't seen that for a while, so it seems fresh. It came along at the right time.
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
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
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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.
The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, poor William! Fourteen houses and no boyfriend!
On a personal level, I don't immediately open up to anybody, even about what colours I like, much less something like this. I am my mother, OK?
It's hard to top this. There is no bigger deal in jazz.
They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those for whom they would give their blood.
Yes, it's throbbing, ... And I mean that in the nicest possible way.