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" I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out. "

" I have the most nervous stomach in the world. "

" No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management. "

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" The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing. "

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

" 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. "

" I live my life like an 85-year-old man. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do. "

" You power through it word by word, line by line. "

" And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before. "

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

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

" When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character. "

" 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. "

" I'm a hamster person. "

" 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.' "

" The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date. "

" I think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out. "

" Nobody makes me laugh. "

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

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