Edie Falco Quotes

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 love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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.

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?

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

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.

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

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

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

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

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.

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

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've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

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'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.