Heather Matarazzo

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…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and…

— Heather Matarazzo

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…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick…

— Heather Matarazzo

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

— Heather Matarazzo

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about…

— Heather Matarazzo

We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's…

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

I seek out good work.

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

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

— Heather Matarazzo

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of…

— Heather Matarazzo