Heather Matarazzo Quotes

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Heather Matarazzo

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 10, 1982

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

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

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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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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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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.

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I seek out good work.

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

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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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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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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.

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

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

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

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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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