Edie Falco Quotes

• "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."
• "Even if I was waitressing, I'd still be acting. I would have made sure, one way or the other, that it would be part of my life."
• "I actually washed my window once, and it fell through-it was being held together by the dirt."
• "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 was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that."
• "I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
• "I was very happy living a normal existence in New York, having my circle of friends. I lived very anonymously for 12 years prior to The Sopranos."
• "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."
• "It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to."
• "My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two."
• "One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people."
• "The pilot script was great, and at the end, we all thought we'd had a lot of fun and "wasn't it too bad nobody would watch this.""
• "There are a lot of things in my own life that I second-guess. She doesn't."
• "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."
• "There will be naysayers everywhere-it's human nature."
• "There's lots of touching and hugging and kissing I do as her that I would feel less comfortable doing as myself."
• "Well, the recognition stuff started with Oz. The idea that you're being seen again and again makes people recognize you."
• "Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation."
• "When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say."
• "When I first read it, all I thought was, "I know this woman. I could play her in my sleep." I like that she's physically demonstrative."