Actor

I'm so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn't be more opposite from Jack McFarland.

Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

I feel like I've contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I'm open to it. You're welcome, 'Advocate.'

I was anxious to get back to my life before 'Will & Grace.' You do need that time to find who you are again. Who am I without this? With fame, you can't help but lose yourself. You want to be the one who says, 'I'll always remain the same,' but it is humanly impossible to disallow fame to change you.

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

I knew 'Promises,' and I knew 'Never Fall In Love Again,' only from the radio, from being a kid; and of course, that 'House is Not a Home' and 'Say A Little Prayer.'

You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it.

The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

I never felt like I could be myself at home.

I felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I had so many friends over the years - so many, out of the woodwork, telling me, 'When are you coming back to TV?'

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

We learn our lessons only when we are ready.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.