I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

- Edie Falco

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

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

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.

- 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.

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

- Edie Falco

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.

- Edie Falco

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

- Edie Falco

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

- Edie Falco

I don't watch a lot of television.

- Edie Falco

I do not cook.

- Edie Falco

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

- Edie Falco

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

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.

- Edie Falco

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

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

- Edie Falco