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I'm the luckiest women because I do get to spend a lot of time with Gloria Steinem , and not necessarily talking about the show [ HBO's Ms.] - but talking whatever she's working on, and going to events with her.

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Marisa Tomei
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 4
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With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
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I love being outside and getting fresh air.
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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.
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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.
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Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.
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You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.
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I did ask Larry David, How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld? He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei.
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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.
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In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.
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My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!
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I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
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I see my parents a lot more often, but what I liked about the challenge of my part was I got to have those little kid feelings of being the daughter, and then switching and being a Mom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You express different energies at different times in your life.
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I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
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