Top 39 Marisa Tomei Quotes
#1. I love being outside and getting fresh air.
Marisa Tomei
#2. 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
#3. Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip
Agatha Christie
#4. I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
Marisa Tomei
#6. I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.
Marisa Tomei
#7. Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.
Stephen King
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden
#12. You express different energies at different times in your life.
Marisa Tomei
#13. 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
#14. I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
Marisa Tomei
#17. Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
#18. I don't prefer much of film over stage ... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
Marisa Tomei
#19. 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
#20. Punish the deed, not the breed.
Pitbull
#21. 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
#22. I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
Marisa Tomei
#23. You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.
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#24. Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
#25. One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?
John E. Goldingay
#26. You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
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#27. I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
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#28. 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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#29. It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.
Pearl S. Buck
#30. 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
#31. Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.
Marisa Tomei
#32. With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
Marisa Tomei
#33. You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
Laura Fraser
#34. The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more ... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.
Hedy Lamarr
#35. I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Marisa Tomei
#36. I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.
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#38. I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."
Phyllis Diller
#39. I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
Helen Fielding
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