More - Marisa Tomei Quotes

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

 American Actress Hollywood

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

Marisa Tomei

 Acting And Actors American Actress

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

 American Actress School

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

 Actress American Actress

He was in a troubled time of his life, and regular therapy wasn't working. So there was this spiritual psychiatrist that I took him to, and afterwards I said, 'Can I ask her? Can I talk to her?' So I said to her, 'Well, what do you think?' She said, 'Well, you know, he thinks he's an alien,'

Marisa Tomei

 Life

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

 American Actress

As Jesus was coming to be known, all the cults of women goddesses-fertility and nature goddesses, and so on-were starting to be swept aside.

Marisa Tomei

 Nature

You express different energies at different times in your life.

Marisa Tomei

 American Actress Life

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

Marisa Tomei

 American Actress Performance

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

 American Actress Man