Quotes from Megan Mullally

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.

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.

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

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

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

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?'

During 'Will & Grace,' we had so many things we had to go to where you get all dolled up. It's like pulling teeth for me.

He proposed, in London, in 2002.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I get offered stuff that I don't really want to do, so hopefully, I'm just kind of waiting for the right thing.

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.