Edie Falco Quotes
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
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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.
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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.
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I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
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I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
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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.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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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.
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All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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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.