Heather Matarazzo Quotes

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

Heather Matarazzo

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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Myself
  • Mentoring

• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Depression

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • School
  • Together

• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Decision

• I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Up

• A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Cold

• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Career

• It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Community

• Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Reality
  • Intimacy

• Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Time
  • Brother
  • Holiday

• Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Good

• I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

  

  Kirby Smart

• I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Fun
  • Learning

• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

  

  David Attenborough
  • History
  • Value
  • Environment

• On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Gang

• Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Beginning

• You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Find
  • Irish
  • Jews

• In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Rock
  • Irish

• I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Character
  • Italian

• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Jewish