Edie Falco Quotes

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

I can safely speak for Melissa when I say both of our plans when we moved to L.A. was probably very similar, which was, 'If I can make any kind of a living doing something I really enjoy, then, hooray.'

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.