Mira Sorvino famous quotes

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

#Struggle #People #Communicate

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

#Who I Am #Artistic #Materials

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?
-- Mira Sorvino

#Slavery #Care #Want

More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.
-- Mira Sorvino

#War #Fighting #Drug

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

#Moving #Hard Times #Careers

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

#New York #Giving #Why Not

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

#Jobs #Acting #Sides

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Academia

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

#Play #Giving #Preparation

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

#Acting #Verbs #Action

Acting is what happens on the way.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Acting #Way

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!
-- Mira Sorvino

#Girl #America #Personality

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

#People #Assuming #Problem

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Strong #Roles #I Have Learned

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

#Confused #Humble #Years

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

#Home #Eight #Intellectual

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Loud

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

#Mother #Party #Play

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

#Emotional #Giving #Acting

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Oscars #Adjectives #Bigs

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

#People #Perception #Looks

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.
-- Mira Sorvino

#College #Chinese #Study

Being is like pretending.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Pretending

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

#Character #Giving #People

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

#Found #Feels #Intimidated

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

#Love You #Names #Games

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Self Esteem #Night #Understanding

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

#Good Life #People #Important

My father taught me how to substitute realities.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Father #Reality #Taught

[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.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Falling In Love #Love You #Thinking

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

#Christian #Queens #Kissing

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

#Giving #Acting #Legs

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
-- Mira Sorvino

#School #Play #People

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

#Responsibility #Body

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Balance #Want

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

#Sex #Hate #People