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" 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. "
Megan Mullally
Think
Narrative
Good
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" Karen will never die. Max Mutchnick, one of the creators of the show, has always maintained that Karen is a bat who balls up and hangs from a rafter and sleeps during the day and that she'll live forever. "
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" 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.' "
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" Nick was cast first in both 'Smashed' and 'Kings.' "
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" Nick is 11 and a half years younger than I am, so his mom is only, like, 11 or 12 years older than me. I didn't call her Mrs. Offerman because that would be weird because we're, like, the same age, so I think I went straight to Cathy, but there's a mom element, and his parents are so great. "
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" We do jigsaw puzzles. Here's a pro tip: Listen to an audiobook while doing it. "
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" If we're ever seen having a public spat in a coffee shop, I think the concept of romance will die. "
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" I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to work. I mean, part of it for me is that I was a struggling actor, could barely pay my rent, until I was almost 40. "
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" I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong. "
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Where
Right
" I kind of connected the dots, like, 'Oh, we're just saying stuff. We're just saying things that make sense, so let's just say them like you say them in real life.' It was my first and one of my only acting lessons 'cause I never really studied acting. "
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" You can't really be super conservative and continue to keep your audience, but at least the audience that we attract comes with a certain level of naughtiness. "
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Conservative
" You can really shoot things you think might work on camera one way, then you can try it that way, and then if you think it could also work another way, you have that luxury of shooting a bunch of different steps, and then they can decide in editing what works the best. "
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Luxury
" I certainly have gay friends, but I don't remember thinking, 'Oh my God, I have this friend, and they're gay, and that's so cool.' I mean, I was very naive until I got to a certain age. "
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" I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York. "
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" Multi-camera's fun because you have the immediacy of the audience and just being able to tell the story more or less straight through. The thing I like about single-camera is that you have the luxury of shooting a lot of different options. "
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Audience
" In real life, there's nobody more out than Sean. It was just in the press that he didn't want to say one way or another. I think he just felt it was nobody's business, but I feel like he came to it in his own time. "
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Think
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" People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb. "
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" Selling a band predicated on nothing is always an interesting proposition, and of course, the fact of the matter is that I really started out in music before I ever acted, and I've done a ton of singing. "
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" Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is! "
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" I used to watch 'ER' a little bit when it was at its kind of apex. "
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" Speaking theoretically, in a completely made-up world where 'Will & Grace' is coming back to NBC for 10 episodes - just in that made-up world - it couldn't be a better time. I think more so now than even when we started! And who would have ever - I mean, it's heinous that it's because Donald Trump is the president-elect. "
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" I married the reigning mustache champion. "
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" 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. "
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" I love creating new characters that are whatever they are. "
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" Sean is so funny. One time he went to Ireland for two weeks with his mother, and Ireland is so beautiful, and he got back; we were like, 'How was it?' and he was like, 'Ugh I was so bored.' "
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" Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution. "
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" 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. "
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" John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season - and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear. "
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