Edie Falco

“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.”

“My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I do not cook.”

“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.”