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I'm just quiet. It's fantastic.
I grew up; I had a couple of dogs.
And I'm OK being judged as an actor.
But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.
We learn our lessons only when we are ready.
I have the most nervous stomach in the world.
You power through it word by word, line by line.
I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. Never.
I have talent crushes on Fred Armisen and Kyle Mooney.
No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.
I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.
Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.
No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.
I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.
NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.
When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead.
I love showing people that I wasn't that guy, the guy in 'Will & Grace.'
Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.
I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules.
When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.
It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.
I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.
I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.
I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.
Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms.
I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.
I had all the Bill Cosby albums. 'To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With' - I knew every word.
My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that.
I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.
And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.
This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.
I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back to TV?'
Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.
So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.
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'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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.'