Edie Falco Quotes

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Edie Falco

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 5, 1963

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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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

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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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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.

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

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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

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

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

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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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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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 really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

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