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I don't watch a lot of television.
All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills
I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.
In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.
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.
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.
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 was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.
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 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.
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.