“I guess there's some sort of unspoken show business rule, [speaks in British accent] 'You do the theater, and then you move into television, and then, of course, that is your steppingstone to film stardom.' I've done it every which way. I've done theater for many, many years and then had some success in films. I would do television sporadically. I thought this was a good time to try it.”

— Nathan Lane

On his role in the television series Encore! Encore! — reported in Susan King, Los Angeles Times (October 27, 1998) "In Sitcom, Nathan Lane Isn't Taking Steppingstones In Order", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. D6.

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