Best 21 quotes of Heather Matarazzo on MyQuotes

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.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

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

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

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?

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.

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.