Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

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

" When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 have talent crushes on Fred Armisen and Kyle Mooney. "