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
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.
I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
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.
I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
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.
I never got into coffee.
I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.