Lorraine Bracco Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I was dead inside.

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.

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