Lorraine Bracco

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would…

— Lorraine Bracco

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front…

— Lorraine Bracco

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She…

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

“You can't change other people. You can only change yourself. Everyone's got problems. You learn from them, you live with them, you…

— Lorraine Bracco

You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember…

— Lorraine Bracco

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…

— Lorraine Bracco

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

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

— Lorraine Bracco

I learned nothing while I was in school.

— Lorraine Bracco

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an…

— Lorraine Bracco

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…

— Lorraine Bracco

I was dead inside.

— Lorraine Bracco

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I…

— Lorraine Bracco

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to…

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

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

— Lorraine Bracco

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward…

— Lorraine Bracco