Edie Quotes & Sayings

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest. — Edie Falco

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that. — Edie Falco

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box. — Edie Brickell

I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick. — Edie Campbell

Everyone agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, though she was worth loving. — Jami Attenberg

Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy ... The biological speculation rings with truth and possibility, the terraforming-gone-wrong creates an environment of delicious creepiness, and Creasy's imaginatively-constructed universe draws the reader in, to follow Edie and Finn's quest for freedom. — Vonda N. McIntyre

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. — Edie Sedgwick

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. — Edie Brickell

Fetter Lane,' read Edie.
"Fetters are chains. Like handcuffs, On your legs," said George.
"I know," she said. "They don't go in for cheerful, do they, these City people naming their streets? I even saw a Bleeding Heart Yard once. Had a horrible atmosphere. I didn't touch anything and got out as fast as I could. — Charlie Fletcher

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills — Edie Falco

I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic. — Edie Campbell

You live alone, creating your life as you go. — Edie Sedgwick

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house. — Edie Falco

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat! — Edie Brickell

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now. — Edie Brickell

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him ... We can show the kids the tape and say, Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other. — Edie Brickell

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy. — Edie Falco

In the center is Judge Theodore Sedgwick, the first of the Stockbridge Sedgwicks and a great-great-great-grandfather of Edie's and of mine, is buried under his tombstone, a high rising obelisk, and his wife Pamela is beside him. They are like the king and queen on a chessboard, and all around them like a pie are more modest stones, put in layers, back and round in a circle. The descendants of Judge Sedgwick, from generation unto generation, are all buried with their heads facing out and their feet pointing in toward their ancestor. The legend is that on Judgement Day when they arise and face the Judge, they will have to see no one but Sedgwicks. — Jean Stein

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level. — Edie Falco

On the way back something very strange happened. I didn't realize I was going to say it, but I said out loud, "I wish I was dead"... the love and the beauty and the ecstasy of the whole experience I'd just gone through were really so alien. I didn't even know the man... it had been a one-night jag... he was married and had children... and I just felt lost. It hardly seemed worth living any more because once again I was alone. — Jean Stein

Geffen was never supportive of the band. — Edie Brickell

It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something? — Edie Sedgwick

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show. — Michael Imperioli

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. — Edie Brickell

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun. — Edie Campbell

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. — Edie Campbell

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself. — Edie Sedgwick

People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die. — Edie Campbell

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. — Edie Brickell

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle. — Edie Adams

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person. — Kate Morton

There is nothing truly painful about this, except the knowledge that, eventually, you'll stop touching me. That's what hurts. Moira. — Edie Harris

It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do ... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it. — Edie Campbell

Annie stared into the flames for a while and then cleared her throat. "Has it occurred to you that maybe there's actually a monster out there?" she asked. — Elise Forier Edie

Continue to study and learn new skills. — Edie McClurg

Here! Turn left, I know a short cut through Barons Court.
We spend the next twenty minutes mired in roadworks in Barons Court with a bunch of other people who know Edie's short cut. — Mark Mills

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base — Kate Morton

How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world. — Edie Campbell

I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment. — Edie Sedgwick

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. — Edie Falco

If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time. — Edie Campbell

I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris. — Edie Campbell

Finn?"
"Edie."
"Don't let me out of your sight. — Sara Creasy

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel. — Edie Brickell

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste. — Edie Brickell

I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come. — Edie Sedgwick

Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude. — Edie Campbell

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time. — Edie Campbell

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday. — Edie Falco

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident. — Edie Sedgwick

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them. — Edie Falco

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. — Edie Brickell

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern. — Edie Falco

Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. — Edie Sedgwick

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There's no way to tell anyone who hasn't been through it, there's no way to explain it to anyone who hasn't tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine — Edie Sedgwick

With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you. — Edie Falco

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. — Edie Falco

You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes. — Edie Campbell

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for. — Edie Campbell

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what? — Edie Brickell

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part. — Edie Sedgwick

Religion is a smile on a dog. — Edie Brickell

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently. — Edie Brickell

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. — Edie Falco

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids. — Edie Falco

The old folktales from Mexico often have the same beginning. "One day a man met the devil in the road," or "The devil came upon a man in the desert." This is not an old story, but I am here to tell you, I met the devil in an orchard in December. He offered me gold; he gave me pleasure; he fooled me twice and then he set me on fire. — Elise Forier Edie

Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature. — Edie Campbell

You and I, we don't love too wisely, but too well. — Edie Kerouac-Parker

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious. — Edie Campbell

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important. — Edie Falco

I dream about you every night. It's torture."
"Why torture?"
"Because I wake up knowing I didn't actually touch you. — Edie Harris

Hello. Do I know you?"
She smiled, showing surprisingly tiny white teeth, like a baby's, swaddled in pink gums. She said "Esmeralda Ulloa, I would hope that you know me. But I doubt you do."
I rocked back on my heels as she leaned in close, her black eyes snapping. "Tell your uncle I have what he's looking for," she said softly. "And if he asks me nicely, I might give it to him." She smiled again. "I'd rather give it to you, though. If you ask. — Elise Forier Edie

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick. — Edie Campbell

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated. — Edie Brickell

The sleeping princess is a symbol of the sleeping earth. The spell she is under is the chill of winter and the kiss of life... the kiss of the sun wakes her. — Elise Forier Edie

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon. — Edie Falco

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. — Edie McClurg

Edie enters the Factory in her otherworldly daze. She is at once natural and a creation of pure artifice. Everything about her - her tights, her long legs, her high heels, her preternaturally skinny body, her huge eyes - seems to drift upwards as if the cigarette she is smoking were made of helium. — David Dalton

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. — Edie Brickell

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' — Edie Falco

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it. — Edie Falco

A terrible day," Frank echoes.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway. — Nina LaCour

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good. — Edie Falco

Any time evil comes into a place it is because someone give it permission. — Elise Forier Edie

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children. — Edie Falco

John Hughes loved improvisers. — Edie McClurg

Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right? Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you. — Nick Harkaway

Religion is a light in the fog. — Edie Brickell

Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world. — Elise Forier Edie

It's a big wide world, after all, and Mattawa, Washington, perched on the edge of it, is somewhere in between Nowhere and Nothing At All. — Elise Forier Edie

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine. — Edie Sedgwick

Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't - it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego. — Edie Sedgwick

I promise I won't laugh at you if you sneak out to bury a few Pink Ladies at the roots of our trees this December. Assuredly, you'll be doing your part for next year's crop. And who knows? You might find some buried treasure - be it gold or simple gifts of the spirit. Happy holidays! — Elise Forier Edie

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically. — Edie Brickell

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up. — Edie Falco

She loves being an American, but being an American overseas is quite a different thing. Edie was able to see herself, and her country, through other people's eyes - through the eyes of aid workers from Europe and Asia, through the eyes of the people they were trying to help. She knows that Americans are often viewed as arrogant and frivolous, clueless about their own country, and she hates that this is true. — Darien Gee

And being alone is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye — Edie Brickell

The Story of the Volcano, An Aztec Myth
Once upon a time there was a princess named Iztaccihuatl, more beautiful than any woman, and a handsome warrior Popocatepetl, who loved her. They were to be married, and all the kingdoms rejoiced... — Elise Forier Edie

You were the first boy I ever kissed. Is that right?"
"I would hope so," he said, his mouth soft as he smiled. "You were ten years old."
I laughed but I felt tears building in my throat and burning my eyes. "You kissed me in the orchard. I dared you to do it." A memory flicked by, the orchard in bloom, heavenly scents, the thrum of bees in the blossoms.
"I wanted to, I promise ---" his laughing face, so close to mine. — Elise Forier Edie

He seems an unlikely companion for a woman like Edie Banister, but the world, Daniel once observed, is a great honeycombed thing composed of separated mysteries. — Nick Harkaway