Leslie Jordan Quotes

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Leslie Jordan

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1955

I do so many cruises out of Miami, all the RSVP ones. And I'm on the cruises out of Fort Lauderdale all the time. I'm always doing cruise after cruise out of there.

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One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

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I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

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For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me.

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I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

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My success on the road is predicated on my success in Hollywood.

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I wasn't what you would envision for the son of an Army man. I liked doll baby clothes and twirled a baton. But my aunts and uncles tell me how much he loved me.

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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.'

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What's been interesting is that the more famous the person is, the less they seem to care if I talk about them.

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I love, love, love South Florida.

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I feel as if I've been to Miami a million times because I do so many cruises out of Miami.

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I had an awful experience where I went to the U.K. and did reality. I can't even get into it - it was called 'Celebrity Big Brother U.K.'

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It's so nice that today, young gay men have a choice about who they want to hang out with.

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I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

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I really was in jail with Robert Downey Jr.

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I don't sing. I don't dance.

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I've done every series that had gone down the toilet.

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I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone.

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The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: 'Honey, you've got an audition today. Keep your feet on the ground, O.K.?'

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