Quotes by Mira Sorvino

• 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 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'll talk to myself out loud a lot.
• 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.
• 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.
• My father taught me how to substitute realities.
• 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.
• 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.
• The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
• The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
• There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional 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.
• 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 could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
• Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
• I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.
• I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?
• I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
• 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.
• Being is like pretending.
• I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.
• 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.
• 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 have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
• 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 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.
• Acting is what happens on the way.
• Happiness is like tofu; you get a taste of it only when you really know how to prepare it.