47 Quotes by Heather Matarazzo

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn’t matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I’m 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself.

I’m not going to let fear rule my life. I’d rather be able to know that I’ve made a choice that’s right for me, than saying yes because I don’t want my agents to be upset with me.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn’t know how to speak or be present with my peers.

We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, “you’re crazy, why would you pass on this,” because it wasn’t something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

There’s another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.