Sean Hayes Quotes (16 Quotes)


    I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.


    He did a nice job. He's been my No. 1 starter for four years, but his pitch count got too high. If we make a couple plays, he doesn't make as many pitches.

    And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

    Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.


    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.

    You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

    I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, Do you like hamsters Why did you say hamsters Do you have a collection of hamsters I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.

    But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

    Really, ... our first priority is to make people laugh.

    I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

    We're not saying we have the answer. If we did . . . we would have just made a hit sitcom.

    We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

    Slowly, people are seeing outside the box and realizing that I became an actor to play other roles, not just one role for the rest of my life.

    No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.

    The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.


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