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" I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit. "

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" I want to make people laugh first, and that's it. "

" And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were. "

" I was anxious to get back to my life before 'Will & Grace.' You do need that time to find who you are again. Who am I without this? With fame, you can't help but lose yourself. You want to be the one who says, 'I'll always remain the same,' but it is humanly impossible to disallow fame to change you. "

" You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it. "

" Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world. "

" I love showing people that I wasn't that guy, the guy in 'Will & Grace.' "

" I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism. "

" When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I'm playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character. "

" Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero. "

" I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back to TV?' "

" Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play. "

" We learn our lessons only when we are ready. "

" You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big. "

" We've always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings. "

" Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms. "

" NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does. "

" Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out. "

" The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not. "

" I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them. "

" I'm a hamster person. "

" The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you're ungrateful. "

" I had all the Bill Cosby albums. 'To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With' - I knew every word. "

" This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something. "

" I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again. "

" When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue. "

" I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late. "

" Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing. "

" At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role. "

" I'm just quiet. It's fantastic. "