Quotes from Edie Falco

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.

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.

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

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.