Lorraine Bracco Quotes

#1. You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

Lorraine Bracco

#2. Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

Lorraine Bracco

#3. I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Lorraine Bracco

#4. You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Lorraine Bracco

#5. I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Lorraine Bracco

#6. I am the boss of me. You can't change anyone else. Women think they can. But you know what? You can't.

Lorraine Bracco

#7. I learned nothing while I was in school.

Lorraine Bracco

#8. I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Lorraine Bracco

#9. I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

Lorraine Bracco

#10. I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

Lorraine Bracco

#11. I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

Lorraine Bracco

#12. I was dead inside.

Lorraine Bracco

#13. If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

Lorraine Bracco

#14. I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

Lorraine Bracco

#15. The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

Lorraine Bracco

#16. Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

Lorraine Bracco

#17. My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

Lorraine Bracco

#18. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Lorraine Bracco

#19. I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

Lorraine Bracco

#20. It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

Lorraine Bracco