Marisa Tomei Quotes

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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• I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Man

• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Writing
  • You

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mean
  • Butter
  • Peanut Butter

• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Darkness

• The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Space

• I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Live
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Die
  • Changes

• We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Road
  • Choices

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Trying
  • War
  • Together

• Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Important
  • Nature
  • Me

• Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Body
  • Wise
  • Might

• I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Paris
  • Chocolate
  • Pastries

• I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Long
  • American
  • Sometimes

• The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

  

  Edward Furlong

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Alcohol

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Archer

• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

  

  Marisa Tomei