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" I felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out. "
Sean Hayes
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Pressure
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" I think the worst thing you could ever do is label comedy. I'm a fan of the broadness of Lucille Ball, the subtlety of Peter Sellers and the oddballness of Fred Armisen and the wittiness of Marty Short. I'm a fan of all of it, and I want to do all of it. "
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" NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does. "
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Just
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" And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before. "
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Yourself
College
" 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. "
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Back
Work
You
" I did, like, 30 or 40 commercials before 'Will & Grace' where I was the straight husband. I had two spots on the Super Bowl in 1998 where I was the straight dude. "
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Will
Before
Grace
" We learn our lessons only when we are ready. "
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Ready
Our
" 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. "
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Beginning
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Past
" I'm so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn't be more opposite from Jack McFarland. "
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Goals
More
Quiet
" When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. "
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Had
Mom
Forehead
" 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. "
Sean Hayes
Time
Believe
Know
" 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. "
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Play
Gay
Know
" This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something. "
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Write
Like
Dig
" I consider myself an actor who is funny. "
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Who
Actor
Consider
" 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. "
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Right
Rest
Confident
" We had a cat in college named Chloe, and it was the most evil, awful cat in the world... When we left, we used to close the door, and its paw would come underneath and try to paw us. "
Sean Hayes
College
Cat
World
" 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. "
Sean Hayes
Long
Nobody
Good
" I have the most nervous stomach in the world. "
Sean Hayes
Most
Stomach
World
" 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. "
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You
Run
Me
" I never felt like I could be myself at home. "
Sean Hayes
Like
Never
Myself
" It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda. "
Sean Hayes
Comedy
Will
Never
" I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television. "
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Woman
Saying
Beginning
" I have talent crushes on Fred Armisen and Kyle Mooney. "
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Crushes
Talent
Kyle
" I actually like working with the other three actors on the show. "
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Three
Other
Working
" I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life. "
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Kind
You
Push
" 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. "
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Place
Dark
Think
" 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. "
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Process
Construction
Building
" Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about. "
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Religion
Worried
About
" When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character. "
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Play
Gay
Me
" I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules. "
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Did
Broke
Never
" I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted. "
Sean Hayes
Chicago
Run
Music