Quotes by Edie Falco

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

— Edie Falco

Love

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

— Edie Falco

Love

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

— Edie Falco

Success

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.

— Edie Falco

Life

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.

— Edie Falco

Life

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

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Wisdom

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

— Edie Falco

Life

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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Success

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.

— Edie Falco

Love

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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.

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Friendship

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

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Wisdom

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

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Life

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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Wisdom

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.

— Edie Falco

Success

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.

— Edie Falco

Wisdom

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.

— Edie Falco

Success

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

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Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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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Success

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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Wisdom