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" You power through it word by word, line by line. "
Sean Hayes
You
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Power
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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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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" 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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Over
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" We learn our lessons only when we are ready. "
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Ready
Our
" 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.' "
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Love
Say
Fall
" 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. "
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Time
Believe
Know
" I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. Never. "
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Who
They Say
Say
" I actually like working with the other three actors on the show. "
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Three
Other
Working
" 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
Grace
Past
" 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
" 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. "
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College
Cat
World
" 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. "
Sean Hayes
Change
Time
Yourself
" 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
" 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. "
Sean Hayes
Gay
Long
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. "
Sean Hayes
Right
Rest
Confident
" Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world. "
Sean Hayes
Looks
World
Fresh
" 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. "
Sean Hayes
Will
Before
Grace
" 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? "
Sean Hayes
You
Comfort Zone
Yourself
" 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. "
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Over
Show
Will
" 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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You
Yourself
College
" And I'm OK being judged as an actor. "
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Actor
Being Judged
Being
" 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
" 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. "
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Human Being
Human
Nobody
" I want to make people laugh first, and that's it. "
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Laugh
People
Want
" I have talent crushes on Fred Armisen and Kyle Mooney. "
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Crushes
Talent
Kyle
" When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character. "
Sean Hayes
Play
Gay
Me
" 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.' "
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You
Welcome
Success
" I spend time with a special someone in my life. That's all I need; I don't need events. I don't do a lot. "
Sean Hayes
Time
Special
Need