Ally Mcbeal Quotes

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed ...”

— Jennifer Weiner

“Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.”

— Josh Ryan Evans

“When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.”

— Melanie Mayron

“Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.”

— Vonda Shepard

“My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.”

— Vonda Shepard

“I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.”

— Jane Krakowski

“If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.”

— Rob Lowe

“I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.”

— Rebel Wilson

“The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'”

— Vonda Shepard

“Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a whole lot. He smiles at least once a show.' People get these ideas in their heads and they're impossible to shake. But, to be honest with you, Mulder is every bit as vulnerable and quirky as Ally McBeal. I think Mulder has pretty good legs, too.”

— David Duchovny

“It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.”

— Robert Downey, Sr.

“On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.”

— Calista Flockhart

“I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.”

— Paul Feig

“It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.”

— Greg Giraldo