Lorraine Bracco Quotes

• 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

  Real, Home, House

  "Bankruptcy? Tougher Than Counseling a Soprano" by Geraldine Fabrikant, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Thinking, Boss, Can't Change

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• I learned nothing while I was in school.

  Lorraine Bracco

  School

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• 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

  Differences, Acting, Actors

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• 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

  Fun, Play, Laughing

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• 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

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• 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

  Fighting, Water, Trying

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

  Lorraine Bracco

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Narcissistic

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• 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

  Play, Alive, Moments

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Italian

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

  Lorraine Bracco

  Years, France, Lucky

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

  Lorraine Bracco

  Military, Want, Problem

  "Interview with Lorraine Bracco, Carolyn Maloney, John Dingell". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 24, 2002.

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• 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

  Mother, Thinking, Forgiving

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

  Lorraine Bracco

  Way, Empty, My Way

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• I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Thinking

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

  Lorraine Bracco

  Chinese

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