I Think I Was Very

I Jump Out Of The Boat [in The Lost World], And I'm Trying To Swim To The Kid, And My Boots Fill With Water, And I Start To Drown, And The Director Has No Idea Why I'm Flailing Around. He's, "come On, Come On!" And I Managed To Rescue Myself. I'm Wet And Sitting On The Banks Of The River, And John Walks Over To Me And Says, "are You All Right, Dear Boy?" "yeah, I'm All Right."

We Didn't, With 'will & Grace,' Set Out To Change The Gay World. We Just Set Out To Be Funny.

I Grew Up On M*a*s*h And All In The Family And Cheers. And Then Around This Time, This Would Have Been '95, '96, I Was So Into Friends And Mad About You, The Idea Of Being On A Sitcom Became A Very Real Thing That I Wanted. It Was Not So Much A Relief. It Was Really Exciting. It's An Amazing Thing To Be In Front Of An Audience.

I Had Played Many Gay Characters Before, But They Were Finite - Guest Characters In Tv Shows Or Characters In Plays.

When We Started The Show [lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - Who Had Done The Original Miniseries And Still Owned The Property And Was Turning It Into This Series - She Brought In A Lot Of Old Friends - Diahann Carroll And Billy Dee Williams And Dennis Weaver. And We Had An Interesting Collection Off The Top Of These Old Seasoned Actors. Billy Dee Was Lovely And Iconic.