Famous quotes by 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!"

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

"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."

"Film, there's this whole allure because it just lasts and lasts, but I think the allure for me of doing a play is that it's almost like the sand paintings they make in Venice. It just goes away after one time, and that's it. You had to be there that one night to be part of that."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."