Top 45 Sean Hayes Quotes

I’m consumed with what I didn’t do. I know I should’ve come out sooner, and I’m sorry for that.

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 grew up; I had a couple of dogs.

I’m a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

I am who I am. I was never ‘in,’ as they say. Never.

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

And I’m OK being judged as an actor.

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.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

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.

But I’m guessing every actor is insecure.

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

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

When you don’t have an interruption, there’s a flow, so it’s easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

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?

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

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.

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

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 have the most nervous stomach in the world.

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

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.

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

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 just quiet. It’s fantastic.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I’m playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.

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.

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 had so many friends over the years – so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, ‘When are you coming back to TV?’

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 consider myself an actor who is funny.