Marisa Tomei Quotes

• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

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• You express different energies at different times in your life.

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• With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

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• Politics itself is so uns*xy, isn’t it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored – not used as a vehicle – the results can be really interesting.

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• 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.

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• I’ve just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

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• I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

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• I really don’t like when things are all polished and perfect – the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

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• 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!

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• I don’t prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

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• 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.

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  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 s*xuality.

   

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• 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.

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Marisa Tomei (13)

Birth:	4th December, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

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Today's Anniversary - 26th March

Births

• 1960 - Marcus Allen
• 1940 - Nancy Pelosi
• 1964 - Todd Barry
• 1948 - Steven Tyler
• 1934 - Alan Arkin

Deaths

• 2002 - Randy Castillo
• 1838 - William Henry Ashley
• 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1892 - Walt Whitman
• 1973 - Noël Coward