Top 46 Quotes by Edie Falco

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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