Top 35 Mira Sorvino Quotes

I’ll talk to myself out loud a lot.

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

I’ve definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun.

We’re going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing ‘beloved’ individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.

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

I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children’s favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, ‘How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?’ and, ‘My kids will love this.’

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

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

I try not to judge my characters. If I’m looking at it from the outside, I’d say, ‘No, she’s not really a great mother.’ But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person.

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.

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 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.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it’s just used as adjective.

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

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

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don’t love it; I just like it.

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

I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.

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.

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.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Being is like pretending.

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

I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There’s been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like ‘Romy and Michelle’ and ‘Summer of Sam,’ and I’m so happy when I get to do that.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it’s interesting to play different notes on your keyboard.

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

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.

As the plot of ‘Condor’ unfolds, you’ll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

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

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

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