Will & Grace

Will & Grace

Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on the friendship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a straight interior designer. The show was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998, to May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons, and returned to NBC on September 28, 2017. Especially during its original run, Will & Grace was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters. Despite initial criticism for its stereotypical portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run. The show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49 from 2001 to 2005. Will & Grace earned 18 Primetime Emmy Awards and 83 nominations. Each main actor received an Emmy Award throughout the series. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 best-written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so far". In 2014, the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will & Grace. The curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" in a way that was "daring and broke ground" in American media. During its original run, Will & Grace was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most episodes and scenes) on Tuesday nights, at Stage 17 in CBS Studio Center. Will and Grace's apartment was put on display at the Emerson College Library, donated by series creator Max Mutchnick. When the set was removed in 2014, rumors came up about a cast reunion, but the actors involved denied that such a reunion was planned, explaining it was merely being moved. A long-running legal battle between both the original executive producers and creators and NBC took place between 2003 and 2007. In September 2016, the cast reunited for a 10-minute special (released online), urging Americans to vote in the 2016 presidential election. After its success, NBC announced that the network was exploring the idea of putting Will & Grace back into production. In January 2017, NBC confirmed the series' return for a ninth season, for the 2017–18 television season, which was eventually expanded to 16 episodes. This was followed by renewals for 18-episode tenth and eleventh seasons.

Year:
1998
12,241 Views

Liz:
So I had this apartment to myself for 10 years because I was having an affair with my boss and he paid half the rent so he'd have some place nice to do it. But then he got murdered... and I couldn't really afford it on my own. So what's your story?

Karen:
Since my marriage ended I've been living at The Palace and even though I've made a lot of swell friends... it's lonely. [Karen tries to pour a soda into a glass without opening it] I want a real home, with real people. I mean you're real, right?

Liz:
[Liz opens the soda... Karen looks in awe as she pours the soda] Super real. So, okay, true or false? I'm easy to live with.

Karen:
Um, true!

Liz:
False! I'm a nitpicker supreme. I think it comes from all my years as a professional in the music biz.

Karen:
You're in music?

Liz:
I didn't want to put it on the ad because you get all these wannabees knocking on the door. I'm an office manager for the company that does those collections that you see on TV. You know "Hits of the 80's", "Ladies of the 80's", "Rock Ballad's of the 80's"... "the 90's".

Karen:
Well I can see why you'd want to keep that a secret Liz. I mean you must really never know if people are liking you for you or the 80's hits.

Liz:
You should know that I like things done a certain way, just ask Melissa and Keith. They work under me. Like if they're 5 minutes late for work, I look at my watch, I look at them and they just get it. Oh my God I totally just bragged. Please tell me to shut up... cut to me still talking about myself.

Karen:
Um, Liz, I know we haven't known each other very long, but I think, that you might be, just about the most interesting person I've ever met... I could learn tons from you.

Liz:
Okay, okay, true or false... I think you're great?

Karen:
Um, false.

Liz:
True!

Karen:
Oh this game is so hard!

[Lyle walks in]

Lyle Finster:
There she is, the woman who set my heart on fire. [Karen rolls her eyes] Which is a nice change, since the women I'm usually with cause a burning feeling in an altogether different area.

Karen:
Get lost, David Cop-a-feel. Just because we once made out like drunk straight girls at a frat party, doesn't mean you're wanted here.

Grace:
[to Lyle] Hi. Welcome to my office. And we usually reserve this kind of talk for casual sex Friday.

Lyle Finster:
Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you there. Lyle Finster.

Grace:
Finster? Oh my God. You're Lorraine's father. You tricked Karen into kissing you.

Karen:
That's right. And it ain't never gonna happen again. No, sir. Not on my watch.

Lyle Finster:
I understand. But I only came here to return the kiss that you left on my lips.

Karen:
What? Give it back!

[Karen jumps on Lyle and they start making out and growling]

Grace:
If you'll excuse me, I'm just gonna go in the back and gouge out my eyes and puncture my eardrums.

Karen:
Oh, no, honey, stay. I was just taking back my - [realizes] Hey!

Lyle Finster:
Karen, I'm lost without you. I've tried to fill the void with secretaries and whores, but at the end of the hour, it's you I wish I was paying.

Grace:
Really, I'm uncomfortable.

Karen:
It's never gonna happen between us, Lyle. So beat it.

Lyle Finster:
Very well. But I'll never forget you. Every mouth that I kiss will be your mouth. Every bottom that I slap will be your bottom. Every nipple that I tweak...

Grace:
Please, one of us has to go!

Karen:
Get out.

Lyle Finster:
Very well. But know this: Every vagina...

Grace:
GET OUT!

Liz:
So I had this apartment to myself for 10 years because I was having an affair with my boss and he paid half the rent so he'd have some place nice to do it. But then he got murdered and I couldn't really afford it on my own. So what's your story?

Karen:
Since my marriage ended I've been living at The Palace and even though I've made a lot of swell friends... it's lonely.

[Karen tries to pour a soda into a glass without opening it]

Karen:
I want a real home, with real people. I mean you're real, right?

Liz:
[Liz opens the soda... Karen looks in awe as she pours the soda] Super real. So, okay, true or false? I'm easy to live with.

Karen:
Um, true.

Liz:
False! I'm a nitpicker supreme. I think it comes from all my years as a professional in the music biz.

Karen:
You're in music?

Liz:
I didn't want to put it on the ad because you get all these wannabees knocking on the door. I'm an office manager for the company that does those collections that you see on tv. You know "Hits of the 80's", "Ladies of the 80's", "Rock Ballad's of the 80's"... [She pauses] "The 90's"...

Karen:
Well I can see why you'd want ot keep that a secret Liz. I mean you must really never know if people are liking you for you or the 80's hits.

Liz:
You should know that I like things done a certain way; just ask Melissa and Keith. They work under me. Like if they're 5 minutes late for work, I look at my watch, I look at them and they just get it. Oh my God I totally just bragged. Please tell me to shut up... cut to me still talking about myself.

Karen:
Um, Liz, I know we haven't known each other very long but I think that you might be just about the most interesting person I've ever met... I could learn tons from you.

Liz:
Okay, okay, true or false... I think you're great?

Karen:
Um, false.

Liz:
True!

Karen:
Oh, this game is so hard!

Jack McFarland:
Oh hey, lady la-la. What are you doing in here?

Karen Walker:
Oh, Stan's been socking down the herbal Viagra again, and this is the only room in the house he doesn't know about. Shh. Don't tell him.

Jack McFarland:
Karen, guess what. Tonight I met the One. The man I wanna spend the rest of my life with.

Karen Walker:
Hey! There is only one man in your life. And her name is Rosario, and don't you forget that.

Jack McFarland:
His name is Bill. Look. [Takes out a piece of paper] And he gave me a picture of himself. [Gives Karen the flyer] Isn't that a great idea? I'm gonna start passing out pictures of myself to people I meet at clubs.

Karen Walker:
Did you even read this?

Jack McFarland:
Well, I read the picture. And it said, "Mommy, mommy, give me some of Jack." Ah!

Karen Walker:
He is the head of some group called "Welcome Back Home."

Jack McFarland:
Well, I'm sure it's a typo. He must mean, "Welcome back, Homo."

Karen Walker:
[reads from the flyer] "It's never too late to get back on the straight and narrow"? Honey, this is a cult! Yeah! Like the Moonies or the homeless. Yes. They're trying to make gay people straight! Good Lord! Don't they know what that'll do to the fall line?

Jack McFarland:
"We noticed your homosexuality. Make the choice to be straight. Gay is not the way"? Jennifer Jason Leigh, these people are freaks!

Karen Walker:
Yes. And it looks like your new sweetie has turned his back on homosexuals. And not in the good way. [Turns to look up at the cross hanging above Rosario's bed] No. Don't listen.

Jack McFarland:
Well, Bill is not straight. I mean, look at us, Kare. We're lovers. [Jack puts Bill's photo next to his face]

Karen Walker:
Lord. I wonder if Stan's exhausted himself on the body pillow yet.

Jack McFarland:
Wait! They're having a meeting tomorrow and we have to go. What this organization is advocating is morally wrong, and it is my responsibility to shine the mirror of truth upon them.

Karen Walker:
Honey...

Jack McFarland:
Okay, I just wanna make out with Bill.

Karen Walker:
Okay.

Jack McFarland:
He's so cute, isn't he?

Karen Walker:
I know, I know, honey, but it's a waste of time, all right? It's like exercise or reading to your kids. The man thinks he's straight.

Jack McFarland:
There are no straight men, only men who haven't met Jack.

Karen Walker:
Yeah, well you can count me out. If you think I'm gonna spend my Sunday morning with a bunch of self-loathing closet cases...

Jack McFarland:
You'll get to be a lesbian.

Karen Walker:
Wake me by 11:00.

Bill:
Man, that was a great game. [turns off the television]

Jack McFarland:
Yeah. So, wanna hit the showers?

Bill:
What?

Jack McFarland:
You know, like they're doing. [Gestures toward the television]

Bill:
Jack, I don't think that's appropriate.

Jack McFarland:
Whaddya talk? It's just a couple of naked straight guys soaping each other down.

Bill:
Okay, I... I have to say something here. The back-slapping and the head-rubbing was one thing, but the ear-blowing and the butterfly kisses are not standard NBA practice. And now this shower thing.

Jack McFarland:
What are you implying?

Bill:
You're coming on to me.

Jack McFarland:
What? I am shocked and appalled. But are you interested?

Bill:
You think that you can just come in here and use this group, this group that puts people back on the path of righteousness, as some kind of dating service?

Jack McFarland:
I just need a yes or a no.

Bill:
No! And I want to make something crystal clear to you and to everyone else in this room. [to the group members] Excuse me. We are here to lead normal, heterosexual lives. Man and woman are meant to be together. So anyone here who has a misguided notion that Welcome Back Home is some kind of a - a gay pick-up joint, you can just leave right now. [everyone but Bill, Karen, and Jack leave]

Karen Walker:
Well, look at 'em go. I haven't seen a stampede like this since Pamplona. Oh, my god, listen to me. I'm a funny lesbian. I'm Ellen! [Karen leaves]

Bill:
[Bill looks at Jack] Well, as long as it's a heterosexual soap-down.

Jack McFarland:
Attagirl. [Bill and Jack start to leave together]


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