Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Leslie Jordan
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.
My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.
From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.
I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.
The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.
In 1993, I premiered my solo piece 'Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far' at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.
I'm Southern to the bone.
The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study on certain days. Saturday afternoon was choir practice. I wanted desperately to be a good Christian.
In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney and I have got up to!
In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: 'Honey, you are a ministry.' It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.
At one time, when I was younger, I exercised regularly and had a 27-inch waist.
Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.
I grew up in Chattanooga.
There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.
I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.
I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.
I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.
In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.
We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.
I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.
People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'
My gift is to be funny.
That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do.
Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.
I don't go out at night.
One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'
What amazes me with 'Will & Grace' fans is how young they are and how straight they are. The guys always come up and go, 'You are so funny on that show. My girlfriend watches that show.'
I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.
All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.
I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.
I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.
I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.
I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.
I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.
Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.
I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.
Big Brother' has put me off people. I thought, 'I'm gonna get a dog.' I really think I'm going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.
In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the best audition should get the part. My problem is getting anybody to hire me for anything other than queens.
People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.
I don't mind playing gay because there's a whole plethora of gay roles out there, but if I get asked to play one more Southern hairdresser, I'm going to scream.
I won an Emmy in 2006!
I love my family dearly.
I can entertain myself for hours.
Honey, I conquered Netflix. I watched 'em all.
My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.
I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.
My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.
I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.
Lesbian humor is nothing like gay men's humor. We're sillier.
You know, you learned that very young in American culture that the feminine boys don't do well. And yet, I had a dad who was a lieutenant colonel in the army. My dad was a man's man, but he still adored me. And somehow in the midst of that, I still grew up hating the sissy in me.
I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.
All my boyfriends are in their 20s.
I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.
I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.
I don't know what the other celebrity's lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I'm always alone.
I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.
There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.
I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.
I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'
I was always the class clown. I was always the funny one.
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