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.”

— Debra Messing

“I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.”

— Debra Messing

“I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.”

— Debra Messing

“It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.”

— Debra Messing

“I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.”

— Debra Messing

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

— Debra Messing

“I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.”

— Debra Messing

“I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!”

— Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

— Debra Messing

I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise.

— Debra Messing

“My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.”

— Debra Messing

“That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.”

— Debra Messing

“But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.”

— Debra Messing

“I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.”

— Debra Messing

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

— Debra Messing

“Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.”

— Debra Messing

“I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.”

— Debra Messing

“I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.”

— Debra Messing

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

— Debra Messing

“To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.”

— Debra Messing

I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.

— Debra Messing

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

— Debra Messing

“Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.”

— Debra Messing

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.

— Debra Messing

“I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.”

— Debra Messing

“I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.”

— Debra Messing

“I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.”

— Debra Messing

“It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.”

— Debra Messing

“I had already just sort of decided okay it's just never going to happen. So when they - when my name was called it was an out of body, you know, just glorious moment. It shouldn't mean that much. But, you know, I'd be lying if I didn't say that it meant the world to know that my peers appreciated what I was doing.”

— Debra Messing

“As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.”

— Debra Messing

Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.

— Debra Messing

“It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.”

— Debra Messing

“Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change
without fear.”

— Debra Messing

“And that's just a terrifying and terrifying thing. And all the photographers and, you know, it's a different, unnatural setting that no one can prepare you for. But, you know, I just try and have as much fun as I can for as long as it lasts because I know it's a privilege.”

— Debra Messing

“I just think of couture clothing as wearable art. So from - to that extent I, you know, I love having the opportunity to just even be able to touch and look at, you know, these pieces of design. In terms of, you know, is it stressful and does it take a lot of time. It's mostly stressful because you're there because you're nominated.”

— Debra Messing

“You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.”

— Debra Messing

“Well I remember the first thing that from coming from New York that just stunned me and I couldn't understand was that you valet park for everything. Even - you valet park to go to the dry cleaner. And that, you know, that just blew my mind. I was like, okay, you have to pay $5 to a guy to just drop off your dry cleaning. And so that, to me, was nuts - the fact you're always arriving.”

— Debra Messing

“I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble”

— Debra Messing

“And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning this now into a series?" And so obviously that was a shock. And all the conversations began. And, you know, and now we're here. Now we're finishing up our last episode right now.”

— Debra Messing

“Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show is the social satire.”

— Debra Messing

“You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.”

— Debra Messing

“Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.”

— Debra Messing

I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

— Debra Messing

“No it was never even discussed because it was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."”

— Debra Messing

“Oh my God the fantasies are my favorite thing that we do each episode by far. And the great thing now is that instead of one an episode sometimes we do as many as two. We did one in each of the mini-series. And so far - I mean I keep thinking I can't have another favorite and then they keep topping it.”

— Debra Messing

I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.

— Debra Messing

And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And so, you know, that was why having the executive producer title was important to me because even if I was the star and I had a concern, you know, that concern would only go so far. But having the title of executive producer actually makes them have to actually listen to me complain.

— Debra Messing

“I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.”

— Debra Messing

“We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is so specific and so outrageous and so fun. And by far the hardest character to cast out of everybody to find someone who was capable of, you know, doing, you know, the comedy and just with the broadness and to be also just a really brilliant actor, you know, to do naturalism.”

— Debra Messing

“It was hard to find somebody who could juggle both. And so we were really just focusing more on that. We figured, okay, if we're lucky enough to find somebody then, you know, the audience will get over it in one episode.”

— Debra Messing