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

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" 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'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. "

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

" I never felt like I could be myself at home. "

" But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself an actor who is funny. "

" I'm a hamster person. "

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

" I feel like I've contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I'm open to it. You're welcome, 'Advocate.' "

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

" I got 'Will & Grace,' and I thought, 'Oh, this is different. I don't know how to handle this. I'm not bright enough; I'm not quick enough, I don't have the DNA to be a spokesperson for any kind of group of people.' "

" Isn't it about getting out of your comfort zone and getting off the couch and challenging yourself and forcing yourself to do things you wouldn't other do? Otherwise, what are you living for? "

" There weren't any funny people in sports or the Spanish club. All the really creative, witty, funny people that made your belly hurt were in the theater program. "

" And I'm OK being judged as an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I knew 'Promises,' and I knew 'Never Fall In Love Again,' only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that 'House is Not a Home' and 'Say A Little Prayer.' "

" They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week. "

" It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda. "

" Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives. "

" I actually like working with the other three actors on the show. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I felt like I couldn't fully be myself and accepted in my family, so I would lock myself in my room on a Saturday night and watch 'Saturday Night Live,' and that was, like, the best thing that ever happened to me. "

" 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. "

" My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that. "

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

" 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. "