Quotes by Marisa Tomei

• I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
• You express different energies at different times in your life.
• With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the 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.
• I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
• I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
• 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!
• I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.