Mcbeal Quotes

#1. It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

Greg Giraldo

#2. The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Vonda Shepard

#3. My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.

Vonda Shepard

#4. Sex for men: when it's right, it's right; when it's wrong, it's still right.

Richard Fish

#5. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#6. If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

Rob Lowe

#7. To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

Owen King

#8. That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

James Turner

#9. We should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

Debbie Macomber

#10. When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

Melanie Mayron

#11. Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.

Vonda Shepard

#12. I think of myself as a human being.

Bruce Lee

#13. I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Rebel Wilson

#14. Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.

Gillian Flynn

#15. It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Robert Downey, Sr.

#16. Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

Calista Flockhart

#17. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

Calista Flockhart

#18. I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.

Richard Fish

#19. The Seventh Sense
Women
who build nations
learn
to love
men
who build nations
learn
to love
children
building sand castles
by the rising sea

Audre Lorde

#20. To me, marriage was an ending, not a beginning. A stone on my chest. A giving-up, a decision to walk away from an interesting life for one just like everyone else's. Much more "ever after" than "happily.

Kristin Newman

#21. When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Lou Reed

#22. Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

Josh Ryan Evans

#23. I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

Paul Feig

#24. I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.

Jane Krakowski

#25. So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed ...

Jennifer Weiner