Drea De Matteo Quotes

I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

— Drea De Matteo

“I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.”

— Drea De Matteo

“I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.”

— Drea De Matteo

“If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?”

— Drea De Matteo

“I should have just become a manager.”

— Drea De Matteo

“I have so much fun with Matt LeBlanc that whether I love it or not really makes no difference to me because I just really have that much fun with him and playing with him. Being onstage with him is great.”

— Drea De Matteo

“I'd love to do a 'Sopranos' sequel.”

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I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very okay with that.

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“I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.”

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“I'm four months along, but I feel like I'm carrying the baby in my a
, it's so big.”

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“A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.”

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“Well, I know from some of my own experience, and many of my friends' experiences, when going through that sort of program. The whole addiction game really forces you to focus on what brings you there and accept the only way out. So once you really put this focus on getting better and figuring out what your flaws are, that's what brings you back. I think she could've been more reckless and shown up earlier, but I wasn't really available to come back.”

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“I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.”

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“First of all, I would shoot myself if I ever had to play straight-forward characters that really don't have much of a past. Maybe it's just that I'm not a good enough actor to have to embellish, but I like having these really, really rich roles to play.”

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“Having all those demons makes it interesting, for me. Coming back now and being completely sober is okay, but I do like going back into the messy area. It's an empowering thing to play now, but at the same time, I do like to play the dirty side more. So, we'll see if she slips, or something. Wendy is always on the edge.”

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“I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.”

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“I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.”

— Drea De Matteo

The visual stuff just lives inside of you. As far as really being able to take care of an actor on a set, how to talk to an actor, and how to get what you need out of a scene is probably where I might know a thing or two. Although, in TV, the actors are pretty much left alone. It's really the writer's medium more than anything.

— Drea De Matteo