Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Intellectual

Live

Physical

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

Mira Sorvino

Roller Coaster

School

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

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

Mira Sorvino

Assume

Know

" 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 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 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'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" 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

Things

Acting

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Mira Sorvino

Innocent

Acting