Marisa Tomei Quotes


"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Performance)

"You express different energies at different times in your life."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Life)

"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Experience, Acting, Being, Theater)

"Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Politics, Results)

"I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype."
- Marisa Tomei
"I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Love, Hair)

"I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!"
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Time, Now, Singing, Years)

"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Film)

"I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Love, Film, School, Style, Theater)

"All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Business, People, Film, Hollywood)

"A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Women, Man, Sexuality, Voice, Woman)

"Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much."
- Marisa Tomei
(Related: Love, Acting, Fact, First, Freedom)