Edie Falco

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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