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Nathan Lane Quotes

born 1956

Joseph Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in Mousehunt and his voice work in The Lion King and Stuart Little.

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Also known as: Lane, Nathan

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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.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

I'll always go back to the stage.

I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L.A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie.

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.

I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathan Lane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.