Annabella Sciorra Quotes

Your mind can’t always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you’re doing.

There was definitely a moment, a time after ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’, when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn’t do it, physically, I just couldn’t. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, ‘Who are you?’ I don’t know if they’re friends or fans, and I say, ‘I’m Annabella Sciorra’, and they say, ‘What have you done?’ So I start to give them my resume. It’s so embarrassing.

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can’t really kill someone, and you don’t want to really hurt them.

The thing is, I wasn’t surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite – and that’s their only objective. You can’t really move or eat. You’re just stuck there. It’s pressure, constant pressure.