Edie Falco Quotes

Life is too short to work so hard.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

Family and personal life always come first and career second.

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.