I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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.
I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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.
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.
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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.
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
