Debra Messing Quotes

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

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• It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • True
  • Nice
  • Conversation

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• My dad's not a big talker.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Dad
  • Big
  • Talker

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Understanding
  • Ideas
  • Better

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Together
  • Strong

• If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Discipline
  • If I Could

• I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Deal
  • Quarterback
  • Sacking

• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Government
  • Market
  • Regulation

• I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Go

• I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Glory

• Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Discipline

• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Aspect
  • Crowd
  • Performer

• Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Small
  • Wine

• When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Needs

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Debra Messing