Debra Messing Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Debra Messing

  Blue, Finishing, Lasts

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• 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

  Children, Self Esteem, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

  Debra Messing

  Baseball, Son, Years

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• And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To me, you know, I'm obsessed with it. Like I think maybe if I wasn't an actor I'd be a litigator. But, you know, it's always just shocking to see what happens in real life because most of the things that you see on those trials if you tried to write them into a TV series you would say oh gosh, no one would believe that would ever happen. But yet they always do in real life.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Believe, Writing

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Debra Messing

  Lucky, Chemistry, Feels

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Names

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Coffee, People, Shapes

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Creative, Important, Elements

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• 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

  Stars, People, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Actors, Periods

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• 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

  Lucky, Enough, Episodes

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• 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.

  Debra Messing

  Meaningful, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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

  Names, Fans, Littles

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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