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Marisa Ramirez Quotes

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1977

Topics

Character Pressure Person Living

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Desert Plant You Find Place Potato

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

Community Myself Me Ego Lose Race

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

God Heart Medical People Grace You

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

Work Comedy Moments Horror Actor

When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

Good Anger People City You Lake

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Morning Wisdom Experience Sleep

John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Character Me Direction Think Person

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Work Adversity Best Out Best Work

A comedy scene can't really have two weirdoes in it. It doesn't make any sense that way, so you need someone to ground it and call out what's unusual about this person and this scene. Early on, I got pretty good at doing that, and I felt pretty comfortable doing that.

Good Comedy Someone Doing You Early

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

Good Politics Nuts Up Shape Just

I've toured the world with David Foster and all kinds of different people. It's been a great ride, and I don't think it's about to stop any time soon.

Great Time Ride People World Think

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled. What about study abroad will make you a better J.Crew associate?

People Better You Resume Will Study

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