Bracco Lorraine Quotes & Sayings

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.
To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help.
When the object of man's conduct will be to improve the conditions of his fellow man and not the appeasement of a mythical God, he will become more understanding and more indulgent of the frailties, mistakes, and action of others, and by the same token he will become more appreciative of their efforts.
He will develop a greater consciousness to avoid mistakes and to prevent injury. Life and its living will take on a greater significance, and our efforts and energies will be devoted to creating as much joy and happiness as possible for all living creatures. — Joseph Lewis

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 was dead inside. — Lorraine Bracco

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights. — Bob Iger

You can't change other people. You can only change yourself. Everyone's got problems. You learn from them, you live with them, you move on. It's choice you make if you want to have a happy life. Nobody's perfect. People are different and that's what makes them so interesting. You only get one father. The quicker you accept him for who he is, the better your life will be. Your father is who he is. Nobody can change that. Find your self esteem from the inside. — Lorraine Bracco

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

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

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

'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part. — Ken Marino

I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny. — Lorraine Bracco

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

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

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. — William Shakespeare

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

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 nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying. — 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 acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French. — Lorraine Bracco

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1] — Arthur Schopenhauer

One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself. — Angie Harmon

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

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

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too. — Annabella Sciorra

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. — Sarah Dessen

I learned nothing while I was in school. — Lorraine Bracco

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

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience. — Lorraine Bracco

It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as such antitheses in the social condition; it will be seen how the resolution of the theoretical antitheses is only possible in a practical way, by virtue of the practical energy of men. Their resolution is therefore by no means merely a problem of knowledge, but a real problem of life, which philosophy could not solve precisely because it conceived this problem as merely a theoretical one. — Robert C. Tucker