“We had been rehearsing for a little while so things get a little dry.

Is it still funny?

But oh my goodness, they went ballistic.

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It was so rewarding.

We hugged, and I could barely talk, I said, ‘It’s so much.'”

Hair today, hit tomorrow?

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“I feel so lucky,” says Bergen.

“I love Murphy.

She’s so much fun to play.

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It’s like coming home in a really deep way.”

“It’s grown her up.

She came back and hello!

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She’s popular.”

Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana

“We’ve gotten smarter.

“They’re both driven by their professional love of that game.”

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“Just because of the element of surprise.

I can say, they come and get me.”

“It’s a conservative data pipe but he’s still Murphy Brown’s son,” McDorman explains.

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He’s a liberal voice on the Wolf data pipe.”

Kind of be the young guy in the office who’s keeping them fresh."

“I’m sort of jealous of it because I would’ve loved someone like that.

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It was such a positive influence in young women’s lives.”

“Murphy never saw a glass ceiling to break.

That’s really what I always felt from her.

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It wasn’t like she was asking, ‘what ceiling?’

She just didn’t see it.

Whatever was coming out of her mouth was from her gut.

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It wasn’t a woman being strong.

It was a person seeing obstacles and she wasn’t going to let them stand in her way.”

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