Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, Tomei had initial success in films as a young actress, followed by a series of unsuccessful films, then a resurgence with a series of critically acclaimed films. Following her work on the television series As the World Turns, she came to prominence as a cast member on The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World in 1987. After having minor roles in a few films, she came to international...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth4 December 1964
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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!
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.
I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.
I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.
Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.
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.
A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.
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.
I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.
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.
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.
You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.