"If he walked in right now, he'd grab my boob and start dry-humping me. ... If we were presented to the queen of England, I'd probably be grabbing his package." (On relationship with Sean Hayes)
"It's interesting... I still live in the same apartment I've lived in for 16 years, and I have a lot of the same friends, and all that stuff. But I'm not broke now, so that's different. Beyond that, I guess I feel more shy about going out sometimes. Like, "Oh god, I have to look presentable." It's just my own paranoia about like, "Are they talking about my fat ass or my pimples?" But I can remember before Will & Grace, I would go to the grocery store when I was all sweaty and gross after step classes, and didn't care at all. Now that would be tabloid fodder or something."
"Oh... [giggles] Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, of course. And you wonder why I'm a gay icon! Maybe what it boils down to is that I'm just actually a gay man." - on her favorite singers as a child
"Oh, God, they were fantastic-and so different though. Ellen was great. She took me under her wing in a maternal way. She kind of had like a hedonisitc quality, and she just wanted to play music and drink wine and eat. And Elaine was just really funny and sardonic, and an incredible storyteller." - on working on the Ellen Burstyn show
"Really, my criterion was to pick story songs, but they had to be good! Good melodies and good lyrics, and it sounds like a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised. And you want people to connect to emotionally. It's fun because they're all very eclectic, and from every period and style." -on how she picked her new cd track list
"You're never going to see Stan anyway, so whether he's in prison or not, it doesn't make that much difference. I don't think my character is ever going to cheat on Stan, even though he's condoned it. I don't think the producers want me to be an adultress! It's not a moral thing," she adds. "I just think they decided that wasn't what they wanted. The weird thing is that, ultimately, Karen really loves Stan. She loves this great big fat gross guy! She loves him, and it's not just about his money."
"Karen is like RuPaul--she's a character, It never occurred to me until now, but she is!"
"My real speaking voice is way too laid back and blasé. It wouldn't work for the character. I had to (create) something really high energy to add another quirky element to Karen."
As for "honey," Megan dropped it from her day-to-day vocabulary, because she says, it's "too close for comfort" to Karen, even though Megan grew up in the South, where she adds, "for all of my life I've called people 'honey.'"
"My dad was an actor, she says. "He was really theatrical, really funny, so I was always around that element. It wasn't like I grew up on a farm, or anything like that."
"My mom said, 'You know, that's cute, but why don't you apply to one college, and if you get in you'll do that, and if you don't we'll pack you off to New York."
"We just want total creative control, that's the bottom line," Megan says of taking the self-publishing route. "And if we can sell it over the Internet, that's great, but we also want to get it into stores. I just haven't had time to do it. It's a really good record that we're really proud of because it's very different and weird." (On The SMP)
"Brendan Fraser's character is in between life and death and he goes into this coma and all these characters are half-animal, half-human. It's a very absurdist fantasy. I barely understood the script when I read it," says Megan, sounding a bit like Karen. "I was like, 'Well, okay, I'll just learn my lines and shut up." (On Monkeybone)
"My friend, Jessica Stone, who played Frenchy in 'Grease', told me that they were doing a revival of the show, and that there was a great part for me. She said, 'You have to call your agent and get an appointment.' I did, but nothing happened. Another person at 'Grease' said, 'Did you ever audtion for 'How to Succeed...? I think they're finished.' I called my husband that night; he's in Los Angeles. I told him, 'I'm sorta bummed out, because I wanted to audition for this show, and I think I missed it.' He mentioned it to a friend, who used to be an agent in New York. His friend called the casting people, and they said, 'Sure, we'll bring her in.' They had scheduled one extra day---and I got it on that day."
"If I was doing a drama. I never really took acting; I just go on my own."
"She's very unconditional in her love for Finch, and I think that's a good lesson." Her favorite moment in the musical "is the number, 'Rosemary.' And I also love a scene in the second act, where he comes back after having been missing for awhile. It's like a spoof on all those old movies. It's like the end of 'Casablanca'; I'm even wearing a trenchcoat." (On Rosemary in H2$)
"My father died two-and-a-half years ago. He saw me in a musical at the Pasadena Playhouse; and, after the show, he took me aside and told me to pack my bags and go to New York, that that was where I belonged. I feel like he's with me. He knew that this is what I've been wanting, my whole life."
The best advice she's been given, Mullally says, "is just to persevere---never give up, keep your goal in sight." And, in five years, Megan Mullally would like "to be doing plays and musicals [in New York}, and also film work. I don't really care so much what I'm doing, as long as I'm doing it with people who are bright and creative and whom I respect." (This was in 1995)
"I never made my peace with L.A. until after I'd done New York,"
"It was just like the role Christine Baranski
played on Cybill, this bored rich woman. If she'd been written in the pilot the way she is now, I would have been knocking people down to get it. But the producers persisted. " (On auditioning for Karen)
"They were talking about whether Karen should leave Stan, but I don't think she should ever be poor," says Mullally. "My favorite idea is that she was a showgirl in her other life."
