Edie Falco Quotes

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• Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

  Edie Falco

  Jobs, Cancer, Diagnosis

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• 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.

  Edie Falco

  Thinking, Actresses, Common

  "Contender Q&A: Edie Falco and Merritt Wever from 'Nurse Jackie'". Interview with Randee Dawn, articles.latimes.com. June 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Edie Falco

  Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Edie Falco

  Night, Needs, Going Out

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• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  Edie Falco

  People, Example, Levels

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

  Edie Falco

  Long, World, Sticks

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

  Edie Falco

  Littles, Complicated, Good And Bad

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• But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

  Edie Falco

  Giving, Actors, Scripts

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

  Edie Falco

  Character, Thinking, People

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

  Edie Falco

  Reading, Ideas, Wow

  "‘Nurse Jackie’ Star Edie Falco On New Season, Sobriety". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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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.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Islands, Long

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• 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

  Men, Careers, Roles

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• I don't watch a lot of television.

  Edie Falco

  Watches, Television

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• All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

  Edie Falco

  Pay, Bills, Wanted

  "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.

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• As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.

  Edie Falco

  Mom, Mother, Children

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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.

  Edie Falco

  Goal, Acting, Wanted

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• 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

  Important, Ensemble, Actors

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• I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Block, Kids

  "A Look at Edie Falco's Busy Schedule". Interview with Bruce Fretts, ew.com. January 15, 1999.

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

  Edie Falco

  Women, Together, Dirt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, People, Important

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• 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

  Looks, Unconventional

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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.

  Edie Falco

  Dream, Balance, Hard Life

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• Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Baby, Elephants

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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.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Parenting, Phones

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

  Edie Falco

  Years, Support, Acting

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