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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

Hard

Balance

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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People