Queer as Folk (2000–2005)

Sharon Gless: Debbie Novotny, Debbie

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Quotes 

• [after she's read Brian and Justin's wedding announcement] 

  Debbie : There's only one explanation - he must've knocked up Sunshine.

• Jennifer Taylor : He told the therapist that he likes dick.

  Debbie : See, you already have something in common. I bet you were thinking you would never have anything to share again.

• Debbie : It's three days. Three fucking days and not one fucking word. Except for this strange cryptic message - Don't worry, Ma, I'm all right.

  Justin : Doesn't sound strange or cryptic to me.

  Debbie : Well, you're not a mother.

  Ben : I just talked to him, Debbie, and he's all right.

  Debbie : He is not all right. A mother can always read between the lines. It's the first time since Michael's learned how to pick up a phone that we haven't talked three times a day.

  Justin : Three?

  Brian Kinney : I know, it explains so much.

• Debbie : Hi, honey. What are you doing here?

  Michael : Uncle Vic asked me to bring some rope to tie you down.

  Debbie : Kinky.

• Debbie : A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.

• Michael : Ma, do you have to sit here?

  Debbie : I know you're uncomfortable hanging out in gay bars with your mother. But look at it this way. If you meet somebody nice, you won't have to bring him home to meet me, 'cause I'm already here.

• Emmett : Do you think I'm physically attractive? Sexy?

  Debbie : Keeping in mind that I'm a heterosexual woman of a certain age, and you're queer as they come - fuck, yeah.

• Debbie : Article fourteen of the Super Mom handbook says no kicking assholes when they're down. They'd take away my halo.

• Debbie : So, how was your last trick?

  Emmett : Mmm, big dick. Teeny brain.

  Debbie : The best kind!

• Debbie : My good ring just fell behind the fridge!

  Michael : Your *good* ring?

  Debbie : Yeah, the one I got on the TV show.

  Vic : From the Joan Rivers Collection.

  Debbie : And don't say a fucking thing about her. I like that she's got a big, dirty mouth that gets her in trouble.

• Debbie : Do you know what MYOB stands for?

  Ted , Emmett : [look blankly] 

  Debbie : Mind your own fucking business.

  Ted : Shouldn't there be an "f" in there?

  Emmett : [nods]  Mmm.

• [just as Mel and Linz are leaving for Canada] 

  Debbie : Hold it. I don't care where you're going and I don't care what you're doing, but you better get your asses back here every Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fourth of July, Chanukah, and Mother's Day. Cos you know how I feel about family.

  Melanie : We wouldn't be one without you, Deb.

• Debbie : There is an alternative to going out in a blaze of glory, and that's giving 'em all the big 'Fuck you.'

• Debbie : Now, you'd better get out of here before me and my fag friends beat the living shit out of you!

• Debbie : If I have to watch Martha Stewart make one more goddamn thing out of goat cheese, I'm going to kill myself.

  Vic : AMC has a Joan Crawford festival all week.

  Debbie : Nobody's that gay.

• Debbie : Well, if it isn't the man behind the asshole.

  Michael : Brian's always behind the asshole.

• Debbie : I'm biting my tongue so hard I'm tasting blood.

• Debbie : Well, as far as I'm concerned, it ain't over until the... slightly-overweight-but-still-working-on-it lady sings.

• Debbie : [trying to comfort Michael when he was unable to donate his sperm]  Don't be so hard on yourself.

  Brian Kinney : [turns around]  I wouldn't mention "hard on!"

• Debbie : You get my tits in a knot, Sunshine, and you're gonna be in deep shit.

• Debbie : Out of my way or I'll punch you out.

  Vic : Your doctor told you not to exert yourself.

  Debbie : Well fuck 'em! I punched you out when you were a kid, and I can punch you out now!

• Vic : Once upon a time I was a pretty decent chef.

  Debbie : 'Decent?' He was another Sara Lee!

  Vic : I'll take that as the compliment I'm sure was intended.

• Debbie : A leopard can't change his stripes and neither can a queer.

• [Michael says that Ben's been heartbroken since Hunter left] 

  Debbie : You two having sex?

  Michael : Ma!

• Debbie : Don't forget, Monday night, ziti night.

  Michael : Great. So I can be fat AND single.