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" I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. "