She took her job seriously and she didn't always have to believe her clients were innocent, it was irrelevant to her. Her job was to prove them innocent until proven guilty. She took that very seriously and I respect that. It was not about how other people perceived her or how other people perceived her clients. She was going to, at least according to the law, give them a fair shake.

Edie Falco

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Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

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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.

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I don't watch a lot of television. by Edie Falco

I don't watch a lot of television.

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All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills by Edie Falco

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when yo... by Edie Falco

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

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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.

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It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that ta... by Edie Falco

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

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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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One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watchi... by Edie Falco

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

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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.

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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier... by Edie Falco

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

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