Mira Sorvino Quotes

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Mira Sorvino

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 28, 1970

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship.

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