Debi Mazar Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Acting for me is not the end of the road.

Before I met my husband, I had my wild days and had affairs with people that are well known, but I never talked about it and no one ever cared because I've never put myself out there.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

Do I really need to read about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?

I could never be pushed into something. It's just not my thing.

I did get tired of the way people would think of me. My heart was deeper than that.

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 like to talk about my love life.

I don't really want to raise my children in LA. I'd prefer a more multicultural place. I want to come back to New York. But with a job, not looking for one.

I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots.

I just got a great Roman agent. I spoke some Italian.

I kind of feel like one of the guys on Sex and the City.

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.

I miss journalism and witty writing and people being creative.

I put my ego aside. I don't collaborate with my writer. I'm completely his puppet, which amuses me.

I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested.

I really resented my name being brought up in that Vanity Fair article. I'm just not used to my name being dragged through the press.

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.

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.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

I very much enjoy the fact that HBO doesn't interrupt the creative process. I'm working with great people.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

I'm in the middle of a Beastmaster marathon.

I'm not experiencing any of this for the first time.

I'm not in the business to make people aware of me. And publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month!

I'm passionate about life in general.

I've always been someone who can just move.

I've been a working actor for 20 years.

I've got great Hollywood stories.

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.

I've never wanted to be the ingenue.

If you're doing well, they love you. And if you're not doing well, they'll take the check, but they're not going to push you as a client.

It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Italy allows me to stay in LA. It buys me a few more months.

Madonna and I were very, very close for 20, 25 years, and I felt that the media adds so much pressure to celebrities' personal lives that it's really destructive.

Madonna is a very dear friend of mine, and shared her knowledge of Kabbalah with me.

Now that I'm getting into my 40s, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

People are basically interested in who is having sex with who, what they're wearing, how they're living.

People don't realize how some of these deals are made, how ridiculous they are. They'll throw in a Hummer for the big star.

Publicists seem to play a bigger role in managing careers than they used to.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

Sometimes there'll be a fat joke about someone or something and I'll be like, I can't say this.

The business has changed as far as the perception of celebrity.

The percentage of people who get to work is so incredibly small, it's shocking.

When I first came to LA, I found it interesting. I read the trades and I could enjoy following the projects. Now I feel more like, Just get me the script.

With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

You look at the front page of the Drudge Report and it's like, Oh, yeah, there was a bombing, but did you know Paula Abdul is being pulled off American Idol? It's insane.

Trivia

Debi and her husband speak both English and Italian at home with their children.

Debi was 12 years old when her father left their family. Her mother remarried years later.

Debi is the voice of Maria Latore in the popular video game series Grand Theft Auto.

Before Debi started acting, she was a beautician.

Debi is 5' 5" tall.

Debi has two daughters with husband Gabriele Corcos. Their first child Evelina Maria Mazar-Corcos was born on July 12, 2002 and Giulia Isabel Mazar-Corcos was on born March 17, 2006 three years later.