Top 60 Megan Mullally Quotes

He proposed, in London, in 2002.

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.

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?’

My favorite thing to do is just stay home with the dogs and read or watch movies and be together.

He is not like Ron Swanson at all because he’s very emotional and vulnerable. He is all of the things that I guess Ron was really deep down. He’s not a Libertarian, but he does like bacon and meat.

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.’

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

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick’s grandfather’s house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

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.

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.

Woody Harrelson played a long-term love interest of Debra Messing’s; I think it was for a whole season. They almost cast Nick in that part. They almost had given to him. But at the eleventh hour, Jim Burrows put in a call to Woody, and he said he would do it.

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.

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

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

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

People are always flabbergasted, like, ‘You sing?’

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

Karen was always such a lawless rebel: carrying a gun in her purse, flirting with 14-year-old boys. She’s the worst. You know that horrible guy Milo Yiannopoulos? She has about as many redeeming qualities as he has.

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

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.’

I married the reigning mustache champion.

All I know is Karen is besties with Donny and Melania.

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 used to watch ‘ER’ a little bit when it was at its kind of apex.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’re both big Glen Campbell fans – it’s one of the things that united us in eternal love.

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.

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.’

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nick gets carsick if he’s not driving – plus, he’s basically a walking atlas. He can drive around any city without a map, which works out fine for me because I just become our entertainment director and pick out which audio book we’ll listen to next.

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

Nick was cast first in both ‘Smashed’ and ‘Kings.’

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.

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.

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.

I’m a big hit with guards at security. They’re the center of my fan base, the airport security guards.

Nick’s just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They’re very ‘American Gothic,’ and his parents are so kind, and they’re not brash people; they’re very soft spoken, salt of the earth.

Now, it’s weird not to have gay characters on a show.

Nick has said he would divorce me if I got Botox.

A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you’re 32. But it really doesn’t.

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.

I love Chicago – absolutely love Chicago. I mean, I’d much rather go to Chicago and do a play or a musical than New York, honestly. Because just probably for reasons that are obvious to you. It’s just a little bit – it’s a nicer, easier city.

My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of… I mean, there’s supportive, and then there’s just full-on over-hovering.

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 had a gay marriage on ‘Will & Grace’ in 2000, 2001. And I was like, ‘Gay marriage?’ I mean, it was just really early.

I started ‘Will & Grace’ when I was 39, and Nick started ‘Parks and Rec’ when he was 39. And he’s really on the same trajectory; it’s all happening with the same timing. It’s so funny to see it all happening again.

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!

There’s sacrificing for your art, and then there’s just being dumb.

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.

A lot of people are saying it’s an inspiration to see a couple who are in love and getting a kick out of each other.