Lorraine Bracco Quotes

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.