Actor

I really was in jail with Robert Downey Jr.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

I really think 'Straight Outta Chattanooga' is one of my best shows.

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.'

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.

I don't go out at night.

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 love, love, love South Florida.

I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'

I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

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

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.?'

My mother had found this album of all these old slides from the '50s of me as a kid and I said, 'We should have these made into pictures because the color's so beautiful.' There were pictures of me from 1955 as a little baby wearing all these elaborate outfits, and in these pictures was this amazing story of a gay man and his mother.

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.

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

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'