Debra Messing Quotes
You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.
