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" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "
Mira Sorvino
Just
Like
Going
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Christian
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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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Age
" 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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Love
Time
" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "
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Balance
Want
" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "
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Major
Intentional
" I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. "
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I Have Learned
Pare
Role
" I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. "
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People
Kind
Hope
" 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. "
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Job
Working
Always
" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "
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Become
Big
Days
" 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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Things
I Am
Doing
" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "
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Want
Woman
Change
" I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. "
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Play
Time
Feel
" 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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Good
Enjoy
Art
" 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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Behavior
Play
Personality
" 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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Happy
Dance
Kid
" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "
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World
Feel
Every Day
" 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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Roller Coaster
Me
School
" 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. "
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Confused
Humble
Myself
" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "
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Like
Assume
Know
" 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. "
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Trouble
Time
Work
" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "
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Character
Life
Find
" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "
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Me
Substitute
Father
" 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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Life
Good
Good Life
" 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. "
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Us
Innocent
Acting
" 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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I Can
Feel
Sometimes
" 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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Know
Something
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. "
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Great
Happy
Looking
" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "
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Love
People
Struggle