Leslie Jordan

I love my family dearly.

— Leslie Jordan

I won an Emmy in 2006!

— Leslie Jordan

We've got to be kind.

— Leslie Jordan

I grew up in Chattanooga.

— Leslie Jordan

I'm Southern to the bone.

— Leslie Jordan

I love, love, love South Florida.

— Leslie Jordan

I don't sing. I don't dance.

— Leslie Jordan

I don't go out at night.

— Leslie Jordan

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

— Leslie Jordan

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.

— Leslie Jordan

Honey, I conquered Netflix. I watched 'em all.

— Leslie Jordan

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

— Leslie Jordan

I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.

— Leslie Jordan

I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.

— Leslie Jordan

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

— Leslie Jordan

I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.

— Leslie Jordan

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

— Leslie Jordan

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

— Leslie Jordan

I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

— Leslie Jordan

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was…

— Leslie Jordan

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was…

— Leslie Jordan

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

— Leslie Jordan

In my head I have had the most torrid affairs with actors I have worked with. You should hear what George Clooney…

— Leslie Jordan

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race…

— Leslie Jordan

I had an awful experience where I went to the U.K. and did reality. I can't even get into it - it…

— Leslie Jordan

There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity…

— Leslie Jordan

I do so many cruises out of Miami, all the RSVP ones. And I'm on the cruises out of Fort Lauderdale all…

— Leslie Jordan

The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: 'Honey, you've got an audition today. Keep your…

— Leslie Jordan

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've…

— Leslie Jordan

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a…

— Leslie Jordan

The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study…

— Leslie Jordan

In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever…

— Leslie Jordan

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me,…

— Leslie Jordan

People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I…

— Leslie Jordan

I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My…

— Leslie Jordan

A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than…

— Leslie Jordan

When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But…

— Leslie Jordan

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally…

— Leslie Jordan

My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga.…

— Leslie Jordan

My mother had found this album of all these old slides from the '50s of me as a kid and I said,…

— Leslie Jordan