Nathan Lane quote: "Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
NATHAN LANE

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it ...
NATHAN LANE

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
NATHAN LANE

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
NATHAN LANE

He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn...
NATHAN LANE

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then ...
NATHAN LANE

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to ...
NATHAN LANE

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
NATHAN LANE

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped ...
NATHAN LANE

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
NATHAN LANE

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in ge...
NATHAN LANE

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
NATHAN LANE

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
NATHAN LANE

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even tho...
NATHAN LANE

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don'...
NATHAN LANE

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining ...
NATHAN LANE

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
NATHAN LANE

There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for tha...
NATHAN LANE

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
NATHAN LANE

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
NATHAN LANE

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
NATHAN LANE

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
NATHAN LANE

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love ...
NATHAN LANE

The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' too...
NATHAN LANE

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
NATHAN LANE

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
NATHAN LANE

They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for ...
NATHAN LANE

Run! When she wrote about me, I was the clown who cried, and you'll be the costumer who cried. 'Oh, ...
NATHAN LANE

Yes, it's throbbing, ... And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
NATHAN LANE

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
LANE GARRISON

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
LANE KIRKLAND

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
LANE KIRKLAND

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something....
LANE KIRKLAND

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
LANE GARRISON

I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid,...
LANE GARRISON

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a m...
LANE GARRISON

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're su...
LANE GARRISON

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-openin...
LANE GARRISON

In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money....
LANE GARRISON

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, ...
LANE GARRISON

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the ...
LANE EVANS

The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we m...
LANE EVANS

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most im...
LANE EVANS

I can't walk in stilettos. I'm more of a boot girl.
SASHA LANE

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE

Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush m...
BARON LANE

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
LANE OLINGHOUSE

Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduc...
LANE EVANS

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this...
LANE EVANS

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitt...
LANE KIRKLAND

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting...
DIANE LANE

Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every ...
SUMMER LANE

She’s got the kind of exotic beauty I always dreamed about. But really, who cares about stuff like...
SUMMER LANE

It runs the gamut. We'll have 50-year-olds, we'll have 80-year-olds. We'll have couples and people w...
BETH LANE

She is just a hit whenever she does her Sex After 50 program. I had one gentleman say, 'This is one ...
BETH LANE

Everybody recognizes the issues, but how do you solve them? Everybody has the same goal.
BETH LANE

We get them in the door, then they don't want to come to work.
BETH LANE

I'll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I'll want to do something random with ballet, and...
SASHA LANE

As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
DIANE LANE

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sport...
DIANE LANE

Vladimir leaned forward. “Never dilute vodka. Is sin.
JENNIFER LANE

Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on ...
JENNIFER LANE

Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter...
JENNIFER LANE

Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and A...
JENNIFER LANE

It's always refreshing to step into another time.
DIANE LANE

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship...
DIANE LANE

That's what I showed up to do. That [competition] is why this meet's so great. I ran the time I want...
BRIAN LANE

We're comfortable with what we've accomplished so far. Maybe we won't be as tight going into the gam...
BRIAN LANE

This is why we put so much emphasis over and over on winning the regular season. In halftime talks, ...
BRIAN LANE

Matt's got a legitimate chance to be conference player of the year. We need him to hit open shots an...
BRIAN LANE

That's what we wanted to do. We passed a little more last week. We wanted to establish the run this ...
BRIAN LANE

We played better. We had better blocking along the offensive line and we cut down the penalties. We ...
BRIAN LANE

We were playing a neutral game. There was no tournament atmosphere, no crowd. Franklin had a decent ...
BRIAN LANE

In the second mile, you have to push yourself the hardest to pick up your pace. That's where you wan...
BRIAN LANE

We want to establish our brand as something classy. How we market ourselves is a big part of that.
BRIAN LANE

For those advertisers that want to reach a mass audience as quickly as possible, the Super Bowl stil...
BRIAN LANE

I didn't bet at that time in my life. I have no problem wagering on the game now.
BRANDON LANE

It's the adrenalin rush. It's the same rush you get when the dealer in a card game turns over the ho...
BRANDON LANE

We finally made the film eight years later.
BRANDON LANE

It's that sustained feeling of excitement we are searching for. In a game, you have it every play, a...
BRANDON LANE

The movie did a great job depicting the crazy run I had in my life.
BRANDON LANE

The series will involve me flying all over the world and betting on everything imaginable.
BRANDON LANE

I didn't play college football. Other than that, the story pretty much holds true.
BRANDON LANE

Eventually he admitted to his involvement, did a videotape walk through with detectives, showed us w...
BOB LANE

That was the difference in the ball game.
BOB LANE

When they were first digging things up, the diesel engines were running day and night and they had t...
BOB LANE

I walk out my front door and there's a well right in front of me. As I sit at my desk, I can feel th...
BOB LANE

The transmission cycles in the Northeast and Midwest are very different than out here.
BOB LANE

I can't emphasize enough how easily overlooked these ticks are.
BOB LANE

To me, it's not a matter of if but when there's going to be an explosion.
BOB LANE

All sight fish must be hooked in the mouth.
BOBBY LANE

A guy who can get in the right area on the north end of Kissimmee, and fish up shallow with a Horny ...
BOBBY LANE

It changed my palate completely when I went from smoking to nonsmoking.
BOBBY LANE

We looked out the ventilation of the attic, and we saw the water about a foot from the attic. Man, t...
BOBBY LANE

The boy woke me up and said, 'Daddy, the water is coming through the door.' So, the water started ri...
BOBBY LANE

My advice is leave early before the game and don't be in such a hurry to leave after the game.
BOBBY LANE

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you...
LANE KIRKLAND

This is one of the first cases in modern times where the entire country is focused on a death penalt...
DAVID LANE

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there&...
DIANE LANE

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print o...
DIANE LANE

This past weekend I was proud to take part in the commemoration of the World War II Memorial and sal...
LANE EVANS

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most import...
LANE EVANS

This year our Memorial Day activities are especially poignant as "The Greatest Generation" joins us ...
LANE EVANS

The $864 billion Republican tax cut is a destructive plan that will eat the surplus alive and suck t...
LANE EVANS

Usually, they had to be considered within two years of the acts,
LANE EVANS

The women and men who have suffered military sexual trauma deserve our respect, compassion and commi...
LANE EVANS

There's a natural tendency after a war ends to put it away and put it to the side. But if you don't ...
LANE EVANS

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants,
LANE EVANS

Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squee...
LANE EVANS

The sheer poverty was like nothing else we had ever seen before. It was to the point where people di...
CHRIS LANE

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other...
DIANE LANE

The students get to see their lives are perhaps not so different from those of the seniors when they...
CAROL LANE

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.
DIANE LANE

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.
DIANE LANE

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
DIANE LANE

It's fabulous. It identifies some of the most outstanding material in this amazing collection of mil...
BILL LANE

Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's ...
DIANE LANE

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardl...
SASHA LANE

I am expecting it to be done sometime in June or July next year. That's a real difficult job to do b...
MARK LANE

We're seeing volumes start to increase, and the sticker shock from its higher pricing has begun to w...
DOUGLAS LANE

I pulled my tee shot a bit left but it didn't deserve to be two feet off the ground in the middle of...
BARRY LANE

I bid on the maidenhair fern at my garden club, and these hollyhocks came from my friend Millie's [S...
SHARON LANE

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles...
DIANE LANE

I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be roo...
DIANE LANE

It was a little cutter, middle-in, and I had been looking for it, ... He threw it to me last time we...
JASON LANE

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'
DIANE LANE

shrugged its shoulder and said, 'We don't know.'
DAVID LANE

He who laughs last has planned to tell the story first.
LANE OLINGHOUSE

Imagination is something that sits up with Dad and Mom the first time their teenager stays out late.
LANE OLINGHOUSE

I kept looking for Hilliard to throw his curve, but he kept throwing me fastballs. So I kept taking ...
JUSTIN LANE

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or ...
DIANE LANE

Anytime we'd beat the Yankees one game it was like beating somebody else three.
FRANK LANE

And for the Doctor, time is literally running out. He knows that Compassion is dying. He’s aware t...
ANDY LANE

I woke up this morning and told my wife I didn't think I would be able to play. Hopefully it is goin...
BARRY LANE

They really are things that might have meant something to employees. It was a fairly active bidding ...
BARRY LANE

That's 109 years between us but I shot Pete's age today so he's happy,
BARRY LANE

It's a shame but it was just one of those things that happen,
BARRY LANE

It's good to play with the youngsters and show them how it's done sometimes. I had a bad spell in th...
BARRY LANE

I spent the last two weeks chipping harder than ever. I probably spent more
time in the chippin...
BARRY LANE

I had a bit of grumpy period a few years back, but that's over now,
BARRY LANE

I think it's as a result of trying to fade the ball on the range on Tuesday and putting too much wei...
BARRY LANE

I had surgery on my left knee earlier this year and yesterday I was in all sorts of trouble with it,
BARRY LANE

I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minu...
DIANE LANE

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. T...
DIANE LANE

Nobody around here has any sympathy for child molesters. The devastation they cause is like a cannon...
WES LANE

Munster is phenomenal. They are so athletic and deep and when they shoot lights out like that, my go...
LANE LEWALLEN

I just feel so blessed to have met Paul,
SHARON LANE

We decided to donate the use of our second house.
CHRIS LANE

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
DIANE LANE

Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.
JAMES LANE

He played fullback for me one year at Hart, ... He was a 240-pound fullback in eighth grade. But tha...
JASON LANE

Fourth in the nation is nothing to be disappointed about. But we came here to win a national champio...
DAVID LANE

Coca-Cola is our top pick for 2000 as global gets good again.
DOUGLAS LANE

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It t...
DIANE LANE

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
JENNIFER LANE

I'm flowing and letting things happen as they happen. I want to be living out of suitcases on th...
SASHA LANE

Miss All-American Beauty.
DIANE LANE

Josh was mortified in the beginning, but now he's completely hooked. I want to sit down, and I want ...
DIANE LANE

He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre, ... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and t...
DIANE LANE

I waited a decade to get here, so I better enjoy it! I love it. I'm a late bloomer, and it's just al...
DIANE LANE

We're both on the rebound, or whatever that terminology is when you're in recovery from a divorce. W...
DIANE LANE

He's dating again, ... He's out there and it's comparatively a breeze for him, at 71, of course, bec...
DIANE LANE

There's a persona to being an actress.... That could put anyone into the shrink's office. Especially...
DIANE LANE

I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her complete...
DIANE LANE

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was g...
DIANE LANE

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
DIANE LANE

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you ...
LANE KIRKLAND

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,
LANE KIRKLAND

We'd bathe her, feed her, all of that stuff.
ZACHARY LANE

He's a good player and a natural scorer who can shoot it and drive it. But we knew he couldn't beat ...
ERIC LANE

I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt...
PENNY LANE

We're not going to fold on this. It would take a lot more than what I have seen so far for me to be ...
DAVE LANE

To Err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
LANE OLINGHOUSE

He is not an American Kennel Club dog who needs to prove his breed.
DAVID LANE

Hunters are doing an excellent job. The heavy mast crop kept the deer in the woods which made them l...
JIM LANE

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating ...
LANE OLINGHOUSE

It's not doing that well, but it's hanging in there. I've been taking care of and nurturing it along...
SHARON LANE

The inability to hold those gains is a sign that nobody really believed that there was a lot of upsi...
KEVIN LANE

I don't know the answer. I don't have the report in front of me, and I'm not in position to talk abo...
DAVID LANE

The people who hold the copyrights said there's no issue here.
DAVID LANE

If they're stopping him from taking his sabbatical, that is an adverse employment action.
DAVID LANE

There are fathers that aren't going to get the opportunity to stand up anywhere and talk about the f...
DAVID LANE

We believe this to be very positive because the issue regarding whether or not Churchill is an Ameri...
DAVID LANE

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.
NICK LANE

It will help students, alumnae and the public will gain a greater appreciation of our tremendous col...
BILL LANE

AT&T is proud to be the hometown communications company for Greater St. Louis and the official commu...
BILL LANE

We're going to the meeting.
BILL LANE

We have assigned two permanent positions to the area to take care of it. Their job is to keep the CR...
BILL LANE

She should keep a tight book on everything she spends to get a real good fix on where her money is g...
BILL LANE

I, for one, am not a great fan of many layers of government on top of me,
BILL LANE

We find we make each other's arguments,
BILL LANE

Fountain Square has been a favorite spot for families to view the parade in the past. However, with ...
DAVE LANE

Our girls played well. We struggled some during the regular season, but we were playing our best at ...
CHARLIE LANE

And now Kit’s cock—which had mostly been used for taking a leak before that moment—woke up and...
AMY LANE

I told them they have the right to complain about homework, but they're still going to get it.
WILLIAM LANE

The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must ...
LANE EVANS

It was a princess-cut engagement ring with the woman's date [of engagement] engraved on it. That rea...
RALPH LANE

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

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Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

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