Mira Sorvino Quotes
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Women, Sex, Thought, Name, Project, Violence, Want)
"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Talk)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Love)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Life, People, Relationships, World)
"My father taught me how to substitute realities."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Father)
"My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: College)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Courage, Acting, Now)
"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Mother, Friend, Party, Play)
"We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Love, People, Fear, Failure, Struggle)
"The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Love, First, Name, Will)
"The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective."
- Mira Sorvino
"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Acting, Fulfillment)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Audiences, Being, School)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Home, Months)
"I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Love)
"Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone."
- Mira Sorvino
"I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Time, Play, Preparation)
"I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?"
- Mira Sorvino
"I want my life to effect the balance to the positive."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Life, Positive, Balance, Effect, Want)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Action, Acting)
"Being is like pretending."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Being)
"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: People)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: People, Christian, Guilt, Kissing, Queen)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Acting, Job)
"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Sex, People, Hate)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Time, Work, Thought, Career, Trouble)
"I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role."
- Mira Sorvino
"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: People, Hope, Circumstances, Variety)
"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Work, Body, Responsibility)
"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."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Famous)
"Acting is what happens on the way."
- Mira Sorvino
(Related: Acting)