Marisa Tomei Quotes

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

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

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

I love being outside and getting fresh air.

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

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.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

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

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

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!

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

I never got into coffee.

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.

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.

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

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.