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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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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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 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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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
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We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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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.
