Latest Marisa Tomei Quotes from Interviews

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• My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

  Marisa Tomei

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

• We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rain, Vcr, Singing

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

• We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

  Marisa Tomei

  Play, Challenges, Feelings

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

• I see my parents a lot more often, but what I liked about the challenge of my part was I got to have those little kid feelings of being the daughter, and then switching and being a Mom.

  Marisa Tomei

  Mom, Daughter, Kids

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

• Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.

  Marisa Tomei

  Character, Kids, Home

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I was taking a lot of eyedrops three times a day and I realized I should have it checked out, that's when I was told I had a type of Chronic Dry Eye. Restasis has really worked for me and made my life easier. They're also partnering with Guide Dogs for the Blind, it's a beautiful thing where they're donating a dollar for every quiz taken on Restasis.com. It provides the blind and visually impaired with dogs, and it doesn't have government funding so what Allergan is doing really makes a difference. I'm so happy to be supporting that very inspiring organization.

  Marisa Tomei

  Beautiful, Dog, Taken

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I'm always dying to do more comedic parts, I love it when I get to do something really overblown like Crazy, Stupid, Love that can just be silly. There have always been hilarious women, but I love that they are getting more and more attention.

  Marisa Tomei

  Crazy, Stupid, Silly

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

  Marisa Tomei

  Fun, Aunt, Essentials

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• 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.

  Marisa Tomei

  Ears, Timing, Comic

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• 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.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rights, Equal Pay, Stories

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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

  Marisa Tomei

  Mean, Eye, World

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?

  Marisa Tomei

  Light, People, Pieces

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

  Marisa Tomei

  Perspective, Journalism, Journalist

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but there isn't even one yet about the women's movement? It's hard to capture because it's so sprawling, and it's an ideology.

  Marisa Tomei

  Thinking, Rights, Pathways

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rights, Movement, Civil Rights

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I'm the luckiest women because I do get to spend a lot of time with Gloria Steinem , and not necessarily talking about the show [ HBO's Ms.] - but talking whatever she's working on, and going to events with her.

  Marisa Tomei

  Hbo, Talking, Events

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I did ask Larry David, "How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld?" He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: "Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei."

  Marisa Tomei

  Strong, Names, Lucky

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up. But that show [Seinfeld] is going to stand up for all time: it's one of the greatest things that has ever been written, and still speaks to the quirks of being a human being no matter what the era.

  Marisa Tomei

  Generations, Matter, Way

  Source: www.marieclaire.com