You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

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 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."

You express different energies at different times in your life.

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.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.