Top 33 Edie Falco Quotes

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn’t as open about my desperation.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It’s not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that’s never really been my concern.

I don’t have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that’s no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn’t make any sense – why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn’t even afford a dog?

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

I’m an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn’t let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They’re in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there’s tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It’s tremendously important.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through – it was being held together by the dirt.

I never really wanted kids. I didn’t not want them, but motherhood just wasn’t something that pulled at me.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they’re not married. So my kids have lots of godparents – men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

It’s a very complicated issue, this fame thing – I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it’s difficult for a private person like myself.

I’ve never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

I’m just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

It’s hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I’m a better mother when I’m engaged in something outside of the house.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I do not cook.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There’s not much you can do about that.

I don’t watch a lot of television.