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...

You get to follow the same character through a lot of the same ups and downs that you go through in your own life. I can’t imagine any place else where you get to do...

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

To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn’t know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn’t...

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

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.

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.

I spent a long time doing independent films, and I?d like to think I?m not getting cast because of the show, but because I?m right for the role.

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

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 Sopranos. I would never want to know.

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 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...

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...

Absolutely, in a show like this. David is really unpredictable. He’s not a rule follower.

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

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

It’s not about finding the character any more. It’s about actually being in it and going wherever she goes.

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...

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,...

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.

I have believed him each time before, and I really believe him this time. I think he’s done, by the fact that they were only able to squeeze eight more out of him.

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.

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

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that’s just me. I’m personally not ready for it.

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

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...

So we’re all in denial. But we’ve also got a long way to go.

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 don’t watch a lot of television.

I was very happy living a normal existence in New York, having my circle of friends. I lived very anonymously for 12 years prior to The Sopranos.

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

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...

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....

I’ve said many times I would do this for a long time.

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 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.

It’s far too nerve-racking at this hour of the morning.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there’s tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It’s...

She’s lovely, great, open, accessible, excited. Everything you could ask for.

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

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...

I didn’t know that the show would be received the way that it has been, … I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. But it’s been a surprise.

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

I’m seeing darkness at the end of the tunnel. I’m not really looking forward to being unemployed again.

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

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.