Leslie Jordan Quotes

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Leslie Jordan

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1955

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.

Leslie Jordan

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.

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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.

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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.

Leslie Jordan

I'm an aging show pony and they trot me out here and there.

Leslie Jordan

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.

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I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.

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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.

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I'm a worker bee.

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Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.

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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.

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You almost had to have grown up in the church like I did to realize how dark that is, how dark it is to be a kid and be told that God hates you or that there's something wrong with you.

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I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

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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.

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All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

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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.

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I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

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I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

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The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

Leslie Jordan

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!'

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