Debra Messing Quotes

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

I wouldn't say the nightlife for anybody in New York is all that wholesome.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.

I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.

It's tough to live in New York and be in the business.

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

Everyone's great in New York, but it's family-oriented. I don't get bothered.

New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.