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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
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I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
Marisa Tomei
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I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Marisa Tomei
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You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
Marisa Tomei
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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
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You express different energies at different times in your life.
Marisa Tomei
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With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
Marisa Tomei
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I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
Marisa Tomei
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I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
Marisa Tomei
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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
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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
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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
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