60 Quotes by Marisa Tomei

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

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.

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

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.

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

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.

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

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.