Mira Sorvino Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Once you’ve found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don’t have to be intimidated by someone.

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.

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

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.

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’ll talk to myself out loud a lot.

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent s*x crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem s*xy. I just didn’t want to sign my name to it.

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.

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

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.

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 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.