It`s hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There`s not much you can do about that.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Well, yeah, but I probably wasn`t as open about my desperation.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I was very happy living a normal existence in New York, having my circle of friends. I lived very anonymously for 12 years prior to The Sopranos.

I`ve watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It`s hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I`ve known my whole life.

"The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It`s not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that`s never really been my concern."

"I actually washed my window once, and it fell through-it was being held together by the dirt." - describing a dilapidated apartment where she once lived as a struggling actress in New York City.