Mira Sorvino Quotes

I`m doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don`t disparage those things that I did. They`re just not as much reflective of who I am.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Acting is what happens on the way.

I`ll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Being is like pretending.

Sometimes I feel limited by people`s perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don`t look like.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn`t want to sign my name to it.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I`ve gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You`re always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Once you`ve found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don`t have to be intimidated by someone.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it`s just used as adjective.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

It`s the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

There`s a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there`s a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they`re going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I`ll be it.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

Now that I`ve got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

I assume that if people get to know me, they`ll like me. If they don`t, it`s not my problem.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It`s so hypocritical.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don`t love it; I just like it.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro`s Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.