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" I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know? "
Debi Mazar
Style
Barbie
Fear
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" Life is just too short to count calories forever! "
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Forever
Short
Life
" I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person. "
Debi Mazar
Living
Acting
Career
" Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people. "
Debi Mazar
Create
Tired
People
" I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood. "
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Live
Fun
Hollywood
" I have a very high metabolism, and I have to constantly eat to keep on going. "
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Very
High
Going
" My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch. "
Debi Mazar
Names
Watch
Which
" I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me. "
Debi Mazar
Sweet
Chocolate
Me
" I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking. "
Debi Mazar
Me
Always
Cooking
" I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. "
Debi Mazar
City
Watch
New York
" My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences. "
Debi Mazar
Mom
Fruit
Money
" I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine. "
Debi Mazar
Money
Business
Stupid
" I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn. "
Debi Mazar
Sometimes
Legs
Hide
" My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time. "
Debi Mazar
Good
Family
Work
" I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path. "
Debi Mazar
Humble
Hope
Food
" As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese. "
Debi Mazar
Like
Cool
Cheese
" Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.' "
Debi Mazar
Movies
You
Watch
" To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place. "
Debi Mazar
Me
Table
Place
" Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. "
Debi Mazar
Being
Actor
Mob
" I married a Florentine. We bought a house, had a family, and after a decade in our little Hollywood nest, we said, 'Let's go to Tuscany.' Tell God you can't make him laugh, but the next thing I know, my cooking show has become a hit, and they're asking for more seasons, and they want it to be in the States. "
Debi Mazar
Cooking
Seasons
Family
" My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party. "
Debi Mazar
Love
Good
Home
" Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market. "
Debi Mazar
Walk
Bird
Preparation
" We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner. "
Debi Mazar
Night
Dinner
Down
" We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine. "
Debi Mazar
Mother
Wine
Winter
" I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.' "
Debi Mazar
You
Down
Beautiful
" My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog. "
Debi Mazar
Thank God
Mother
Dog
" I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen. "
Debi Mazar
Kitchen
Bored
Travel
" I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel. "
Debi Mazar
Ugly
Truth
Truth Is
" For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme. "
Debi Mazar
Holidays
Special
Table
" We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love. "
Debi Mazar
You
Beautiful
Best
" Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love. "
Debi Mazar
Good
Food
Love