Tomei Quotes & Sayings

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours. — Marisa Tomei

Y'know, it's not that we need equality. Because everyone's already equal, it's just that a ton of idiots lost the memo. Indeed, everyone just needs to be TREATED like the equal they already are. — Ellie Rose McKee

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part. — Marisa Tomei

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal ... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts

I never got into coffee. — Marisa Tomei

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel. — Marisa Tomei

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

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. — Marisa Tomei

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

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. — Jack Nicholson

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil. — Hayao Miyazaki

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. — Dario Fo

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

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day. — Marisa Tomei

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

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar

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

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. — Nicholas D. Kristof

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

My relationship with Christian Slater is like him and Marisa Tomei in 'Untamed Heart.' 'True Romance' was right when I was beginning to become a fan boy of movies. People forget that he's worked with some of the biggest directors in Hollywood. He's worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo. — Bret Harrison

My lofty ambitions are partially due to the fact that I'm part of generation, Yes You Can, I Guess: How about I throw a combination of money, attention, and prescription medication at the problem? — Alida Nugent

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. — Marisa Tomei

Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living. — James Patrick Kelly

You express different energies at different times in your life. — Marisa Tomei

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

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

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too. — Annabella Sciorra

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz. — Jon Secada

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

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

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

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. — Channing Pollock

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

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. — Marisa Tomei

I love being outside and getting fresh air. — Marisa Tomei

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. — Marisa Tomei

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

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime. — Marisa Tomei

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. — Marisa Tomei