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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. "

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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. "

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

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

" My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 do not cook. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

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

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

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