Marisa Tomei Quotes

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Acting is therapeutic.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.