Lorraine Bracco Quotes

#1. Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.

Angie Harmon

#2. 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

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

Lorraine Bracco

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

Lorraine Bracco

#5. 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

#6. I was dead inside.

Lorraine Bracco

#7. 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

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

Lorraine Bracco

#9. Well, lucky you, you've landed in the right nest. Come, come, follow me, young hatchling.
-Keeper of the chronicles (Alister)

Candace Knoebel

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

Lorraine Bracco

#11. Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

Ashley Judd

#12. Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Lorraine Bracco

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Lorraine Bracco

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay. Do you know why? Because we wanted them to know that they were about to get boned in the ass.

Carlos Mencia

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

Lorraine Bracco

#22. Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

Brian K. Vaughan

#23. We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Graca Machel

#24. I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

Davey Havok

#25. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

#26. 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

#27. As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Neil Postman

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

Lorraine Bracco

#29. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile.

Jennifer Paynter

#33. Anger doesn't win games.

Gary Beban