“I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L. A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie.”

—  Nathan Lane

On his role in The Producers — reported in Amy Longsdorf (December 25, 2005) "Lane, Broderick play off each other", The Record, p. E01.

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