Steward Quotes

Playing gay in the theater is more fulfilling than on film because you can create a whole character and a backstory and you get to chip away at something over a long period of time. When you’re acting on film you sort of have one afternoon in front of a crew to just do it. And you don’t want to then be too overt and like that stereotype. But when I was doing A Paris Letter with Josh (Radnor), I was playing someone overtly flamboyant from the ’60s seducing him, and if I did that on film, I think it would look like I was acting too hard. It’s one of the fun things one wants to do as an actor, to play the flamboyant gay guy. But when you are gay that ends up being offensive to people. Say I was asked to play a flamboyant steward in an Airplane!–type farce. It would be a difficult decision to say yes to that role at this point because a lot of people would accuse me of making a mockery of gay people.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

I`ve come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

Dad worked on a railway as a steward on the dinning cars. He`d been a soldier, he`d been a sailor, and he was a chef in his later years.

We are caught in a bind here. I don`t have a choice as a steward of this system.

It`s a year-by-year thing with me, that`s all I can tell you. ... The Pac-10 contract exists through 2011, but I`m pretty sure by 2011, I will have become the shop steward of the International Porch Sitters Union and I won`t worry about it.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.