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 stag…

- 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 that you never know.

- Lorraine Bracco

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

- Lorraine Bracco

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

- 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 them.

- Lorraine Bracco

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

- Lorraine Bracco

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

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 f…

- 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 with nowhere to go.

- Lorraine Bracco