After a show I can't go to sleep until one or two o'clock in the morning, and I've always been a morning person.
I did one week on a low-budget movie - Max and Grace, expected later this year - with Natasha Lyonne and David Krumholtz.
I learned that I have the courage to do a play. At times I didn't think I was going to make it. I learned that I could endure.
I sleep till 11, 12, and at five they pick me up. I've been doing yoga every day.
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.
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.
I'll tell you, between the kid - John Lavelle, who plays Benjamin - who is 21, and me -I'm 48 years old -it's a hell of a difference. I mean, I'm not complaining when I'm romping in the bed with him.
I've started to laughing onstaage, but I was able to stop. I'm proud of myself that I have any control at all.
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.
It's not really my kind of personality, yoga, but we do a half hour and I'm totally relaxed. I've been working out, so I feel big, good, and strong.
So now my whole physical and mental life is different. It's weird. But it's only for a few months -by the time this issue comes out I'll only have a few weeks left.
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.
The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.
There are a couple of times when Benjamin calls me a bitch, and it makes me want to laugh. Or when we're in bed -I'm hysterical under the sheets.
When they're rolling in the aisles it's a lot of fun, but when they're tired and bored and not into it -which does happen -it makes me sad that they spent all that money, and the energy to even get there.
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..
Before she was an actress, Lorraine worked as a disc jockey for Radio Luxembourg.
Lorraine was raised in Hicksville, Long Island, New York.
In 1979, Lorraine married Frenchman Daniel Guerard, a salon owner, after she became pregnant. The two divorced in 1983.
In 1992, Lorraine married actor Harvey Keitel. The two divorced in 1993 after she began dating actor Edward James Olmos.
The producer of The Sopranos, David Chase, originally wanted Lorraine to portray "Carmela Soprano". However, she refused because she had already played a mobster's wife in the 1990 film Goodfellas.
Lorraine was voted the "Ugliest Girl in the 6th Grade" at her Long Island grade school.
Lorraine's sister, Elizabeth Bracco, is also an actress.
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