Mira Sorvino Quotes

Acting is what happens on the way.

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

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.

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

Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.

[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.

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

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'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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