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" My mom is elderly, and she's not doing too well, and I've literally never told her about 'Childrens Hospital,' because I fear that if she ever sees it, it will be like the coup de grace. "

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" One year at the SAG Awards, somebody practically knocked me over, and it was Helen Mirren. She was like, 'Oh my God - is it really you? I'm your biggest fan.' I was like, 'Wait, aren't you supposed to be home reading Shakespeare or something?' "

Megan Mullally

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" There's kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you're an actor and you have a band, everyone's, 'Ugh, disgusting! It's a vanity project.' "

" I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world. "

" I don't know other couples that work together a fraction as much as Nick and I do. We met in a play, and we've done TV and movies, and we just did 'Annapurna,' our off-Broadway show, and we've done theater together several times, so it's just a little bit of everything. "

" We do jigsaw puzzles. Here's a pro tip: Listen to an audiobook while doing it. "

" He proposed, in London, in 2002. "

Megan Mullally

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" We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love. "

Megan Mullally

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" Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more. "

" People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb. "

" If we're ever seen having a public spat in a coffee shop, I think the concept of romance will die. "

" I think a lot of actors, maybe who have been on a hit show and been lucky enough to get successful, might say 'no' more than I do. And maybe that's good, maybe that's smart. I don't know. "

" Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution. "

Megan Mullally

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Just

" Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is! "

" I love creating new characters that are whatever they are. "

" There were some articles written about our marriage, mythologising it, making it into the greatest love story ever told. "

" Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that. "

" I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone. "

" It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially. "

" Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good. "

" Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink. "

" That's all you ever want - to do your job well enough that people on the other end are happy. "

" I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong. "

" I married the reigning mustache champion. "

" Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air. "

" Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression. "

" I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up. "

" At first, people were like, 'I've discovered something - you guys are married!' I was like, 'Yeah, that's not a secret. We've been married now already for many years.' "

" I secretly had this name 'Nancy and Beth' come into my mind, and I thought, 'Oh my God, that's such a funny, interesting, weird name for a band.' "

" I can understand everybody associates me with Karen, but beyond that, I think after time passes and a few years go by, that sort of becomes a non-issue. That character is far - I mean really, all the characters I've played are pretty far away from what I'm really like. "

Megan Mullally

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Time

" All the writers on our show went in and got in the bed and took a picture in Cher's bed, even though she was never in it. "