Mira Sorvino Quotes
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[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.
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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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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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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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Being is like pretending.
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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.
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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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We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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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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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!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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 have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
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My father taught me how to substitute realities.
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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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I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.
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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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Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.
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I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?
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Acting is what happens on the way.
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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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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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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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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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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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