Marisa Tomei Quotes

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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• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

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• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

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• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

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• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
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• I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

  

  Zach Woods
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• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
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• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
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• My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Same
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• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

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• I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.

  

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• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

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• I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

  

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• I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.

  

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• I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

  

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• I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

  

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• The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
  • Why
  • Freedom