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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Megan Mullally

Now

Dignity

Gone

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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 get deep into the creative aspect, and Nick is the people person. "

" I lived in Chicago in the early '80s and did a ton of theater, and then Nick lived there in the '90s and did a ton of theater. Then we both moved to L.A. and did a ton of television. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" We met in April of 2000, and we weren't really an official couple until June or July. His family has a fishing trip they go on every year in Minnesota, so he had invited me to go and meet his whole family. There was, like, no cell phone service at the time; people were using those giant cordless phones that looked like a brick. "

" People are always flabbergasted, like, 'You sing?' "

Megan Mullally

People

Always

" Nick hasn't seen me naked - I'm not a person who's constantly flinging my clothes aside and strutting about. "

Megan Mullally

About

Naked

" We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin. "

Megan Mullally

Punk

Numbers

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

" 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. "

" We have a two-week rule. We're never apart for more two weeks. Just not being separated for Jurassic periods of time seems to help. And no children probably helps a lot. "

Megan Mullally

Help

Never

" I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'. "

" 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. "

" I used to watch 'ER' a little bit when it was at its kind of apex. "

" I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary. "

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

" Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better. "

" People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I always thought, 'Oh, Cher seems so cool. If I ever met her, I know we'd be best friends.' "

" 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. "

" I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "