People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.
I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.
I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.
I won an Emmy in 2006!
I can entertain myself for hours.
I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.
We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.
I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.
My gift is to be funny.
We've got to be kind.
Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.
I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'
I really think 'Straight Outta Chattanooga' is one of my best shows.
I have not left the house after 6 o'clock without a paycheck for years.
I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.
I am not a drag queen.
You just can't move back with your mom at 64. It just doesn't quite work.
I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.
The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study on certain days. Saturday afternoon was choir practice. I wanted desperately to be a good Christian.
I got sober at age forty-two.
