Mira Sorvino quotes Oscar win for 'Mighty Aphrodite' (1995 ) Born: 09/28/1967 Country: italy

• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [action/action]
• Acting is what happens on the way. (Mira Sorvino)
• Being is like pretending. (Mira Sorvino) [being]
• I always feel I can play a role-just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. (Mira Sorvino) [give/time]
• I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. (Mira Sorvino) [people/problem]
• I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. (Mira Sorvino) [love]
• I did H.M.S. Pinafore in grade school. (Mira Sorvino) [grade/school]
• I don't think you can judge Linda when you see her in Mighty Aphrodite. (Mira Sorvino) [think]
• I get to try and be a man. (Mira Sorvino)
• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [sin/guilt/kissing/people]
• I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? (Mira Sorvino) [give]
• 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. (Mira Sorvino)
• I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. (Mira Sorvino) [people/sex/people]
• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [time/career]
• I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. (Mira Sorvino) [role]
• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. (Mira Sorvino) [people/people]
• I loved the Chinese people, and it was fascinating to live in an oppressive society. The whole thing made me feel that I was able to cope. (Mira Sorvino) [people/society/thing]
• I made myself walk around in character in a variety of venues in New York. I carried on a two-hour conversation as her, and people were convinced. (Mira Sorvino) [character/conversation/people]
• I really didn't know how to be cool. I studied ballet from the age of 7 to 14, but I wasn't a quick study. I felt so self-conscious. I was taller than everyone by a foot. (Mira Sorvino) [age]
• I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. (Mira Sorvino) [take/responsibility/seriously/soul & body]
• I talked to a porn actress in preparation for the film and the amazing thing I got from her was her sense of happiness and pride in what she does. (Mira Sorvino) [film/thing/happiness/pride]
• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [more/more]
• I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. (Mira Sorvino) [life/balance]
• 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) [housing]
• I wanted to try something that I was afraid of. I'd always been afraid of the horror genre, even as an audience member. (Mira Sorvino) [horror]
• I was associate producer of the first film I was ever in, Amongst Friends. (Mira Sorvino) [film]
• I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it. (Mira Sorvino) [thing/sex/women]
• I went to the museum's 18th-century room and saw the wild poses that the men would take. I threw some of them into the characterization just because they were fun. (Mira Sorvino) [wild/men/take]
• I'd do a Romy and Michele 2. I'd be happy to do that. (Mira Sorvino)
• I'd never done anything this far back in history. The earliest I've ever done was the 19th century. I actually did play a boy twice before. (Mira Sorvino)
• I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. (Mira Sorvino)

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