Debra Messing Quotes
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
Quotes to Explore
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Isolationism is over.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
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Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
