Heather Matarazzo Quotes

• They don’t teach you just how to be in school. There’s no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

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• There’s another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

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• There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

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• The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It’s the minute I’m putting a judgment on something.

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• So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It’s more fun.

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• My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

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• It’s good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people’s views.

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• It doesn’t matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it’s good work.

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• It doesn’t matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

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• If I was just considered a looker and wasn’t considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

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• I’ve been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I’ve been given, then it’s all worth it.

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• I’m 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

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• I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

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• I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

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• I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn’t sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you’re a teenager and you go to high school and you’re in the business and you are known.

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• I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

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• I seek out good work.

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• I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

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• I feel that I’ve been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I’ve chosen to do.

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• I don’t really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

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Heather Matarazzo (23)

Birth:	10th November, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Heather Christina Marie Matarazzo was born in Oyster Bay, New York, USA. She is an American actress. In 1997, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Welcome to the Dollhouse. Her role in several films include: The Princess Diaries, The Devil's Advocate, Company Man, Sorority Boys, Saved!, Hostel: Part II, Mangus!, and Sisters. Her role in television include: Now and Again(Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television) and Exes and Ohs.

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