Heather Matarazzo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Crazy #Choices #The End Of The Day
I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Choices #Upset #Agents
Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Thinking #Would Be #Honestly
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Fun #Character #Depth
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Doors #Rejection #Faces
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Matter #Praise #Members
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Character #Thinking #Play
The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Beautiful #Love You #Someone You Love
It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Views #People #Closets
But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Circles #People #The End Of The Day
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Teenager #School #Thinking
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?
-- Heather Matarazzo

#School #Class #Choices
If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Years #Actors
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Giving #Giving Back #Given
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Self #Feelings #Peers
I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Roles #Kind
I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Film #Feels #Chosen
I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Hurt #Faces #I Smile
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.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Scripts #Sticks #Belief
I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.
-- Heather Matarazzo
I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Blessed #Musical #Being Blessed
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Italian #Birth #Grew Up
There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.
-- Heather Matarazzo

#Girl #Play #Faye

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