List of Debra Messing Quotes

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.

We Have So Many Different Options Now And Ways To Communicate Digitally. But I Don't Think Anything Is More Meaningful Or Powerful Than A Hand-written Letter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You Can't Control Chemistry. You Can't Control, You Know, Just Similar Aesthetics Creatively. And, You Know, David And I Didn't Know Each Other Prior To This. And We Get Along Famously. So It's - I Feel Very Lucky.

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.

Oh Young Frankenstein - That's Right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I Mean, You Know, It - They Just Keep Going On And On And On - Mission: Impossible. And, You Know, I Think That The Writers Are Having So Much Fun Now With Them That, You Know, Half The Time, You Know, People Are Just Sitting Around Saying - Trying To Think Of What's A Great Movie To Copy.

And So Out Of The Blue The Call Did Come And Said, You Know, "would You Be - Would You Consider Turning This [the Starter Wife] 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.

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 [the Starter Wife] Is The Social Satire.

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.