Top 100 Debi Quotes
#1. A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar
#2. We live in a time that hungers for HOPE; to believe in MIRACLES and DREAMS, for without these soul gems, humanity is ripped at the seams.
Debi Tibbles
#3. Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
Debi Mazar
#4. Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.
Debi Thomas
#5. My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.
Debi Mazar
#6. I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.
Debi Mazar
#7. If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
Debi Thomas
#8. It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Debi Gliori
#9. Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
Debi Mazar
#10. Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
Debi Thomas
#11. I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.
Debi Mazar
#12. I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.
Debi Thomas
#13. When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.
Debi Mazar
#14. My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
Debi Thomas
#15. I'm naturally a muscular gal with some curves, so eating a Mediterranean diet makes my body happy.
Debi Mazar
#16. My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.
Debi Mazar
#17. There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
Debi Mazar
#18. Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.
Debi Mazar
#19. It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.
Debi Thomas
#20. I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.
Debi Mazar
#21. A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.
Debi Pearl
#22. You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.
Debi Thomas
#23. In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.
Debi Mazar
#24. We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.
Debi Mazar
#25. I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
Debi Gliori
#26. I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.
Debi Thomas
#27. My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.
Debi Mazar
#28. I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.
Debi Mazar
#29. Cook what's fresh for the day. When you're using fresh fruits, vegetables, and foods, it's easier to keep the weight off. And I eat whatever I want - just not a ton of it.
Debi Mazar
#30. For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.
Debi Thomas
#31. Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
Debi Mazar
#32. When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.
Debi Mazar
#33. Men are highly attracted to smiles. That includes your husband.
Debi Pearl
#34. I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.
Debi Mazar
#35. I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.
Debi Mazar
#36. Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
Debi Mazar
#37. I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas
#38. Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
Debi Gliori
#39. We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.
Debi Mazar
#40. But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.
Debi Thomas
#41. Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.
Debi Mazar
#42. Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.
Debi Mazar
#43. I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
Debi Mazar
#44. Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.
Debi Mazar
#45. So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
Debi Thomas
#46. I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?
Debi Mazar
#47. Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.
Debi Mazar
#48. On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.
Debi Mazar
#49. My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
Debi Mazar
#50. Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas
#51. I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.
Debi Mazar
#52. Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.
Debi Mazar
#53. My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house ... I had a little attitude.
Debi Mazar
#54. I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.
Debi Mazar
#55. I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.
Debi Mazar
#56. I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.
Debi Mazar
#57. My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
Debi Mazar
#58. I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.
Debi Mazar
#59. My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'
Debi Mazar
#60. I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.
Debi Mazar
#61. I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
Debi Gliori
#62. I've always been someone who can just move. Some people in L.A. are addicted. They have to be here; they come for pilot season and stay here.
Debi Mazar
#63. For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
Debi Mazar
#64. I like to have my hair grow, because I need to have hair for different roles. But I'm a woman, so I'm always cutting my hair off and wishing that I hadn't.
Debi Mazar
#65. Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"
... Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see ... love like starlight never dies ...
Debi Gliori
#66. I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.
Debi Gliori
#67. What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
Debi Thomas
#68. I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.
Debi Mazar
#70. For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.
Debi Mazar
#71. I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
Debi Mazar
#72. We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.
Debi Mazar
#73. Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'
Debi Mazar
#74. I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.
Debi Mazar
#75. I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.
Debi Mazar
#76. Life is just too short to count calories forever!
Debi Mazar
#77. What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
Debi Thomas
#78. I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.
Debi Mazar
#79. I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.
Debi Mazar
#80. I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.
Debi Thomas
#81. I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.
Debi Mazar
#82. I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.
Debi Thomas
#83. You're not a proper dragon', they sneered. 'You can't fly.' 'You can't breathe fire.' 'You're covered in feathers, you big...softy.'
"We're covered in feathers,' says Bib. "Yes," says Mummy, "feathers keep us warm, but they can't keep cold words out.
Debi Gliori
#84. Desmo is my guard dog, but he has a sweet side, too. Nothing entertains him (or me) more than when I blow bubbles and he can chase them.
Debi Mazar
#85. I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.'
Debi Mazar
#86. I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.
Debi Mazar
#87. My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
Debi Thomas
#88. We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.
Debi Mazar
#89. You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.
Debi Mazar
#90. With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.
Debi Mazar
#91. I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
Debi Mazar
#92. Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.
Debi Thomas
#93. I'm a chocoholic. I need chocolate every day, like one little piece of Droste. I'm not into milk chocolate. But I don't like it when its super bitter. I need a sweet factor in there. I go for the 75 percent - that's good enough for me.
Debi Mazar
#94. I begged my mom to let me start skating.
Debi Thomas
#95. I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
Debi Thomas
#96. Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
Debi Thomas
#97. I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.
Debi Thomas
#98. I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.
Debi Gliori
#100. I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
Debi Mazar
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