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

• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [more/more/love]
• I've wanted to work with Yun-Fat because I have been a great fan of his Hong Kong films. I'm very drawn to filmmakers from Asia, because I want to work over there. (Mira Sorvino)
• It was an early accolade that I greatly appreciated and did not expect. People may not have felt I was capable of doing characters that were not like the other characters I had played, had I not won the award. (Mira Sorvino) [people/award]
• It was more of an experiment, walking into a different genre, rather than something that was close to me. (Mira Sorvino) [more]
• Maybe there's a stage in people's careers where they stop going with the director's choice. I haven't reached that point yet. (Mira Sorvino) [stage/choice/point]
• My father taught me how to substitute realities. (Mira Sorvino)
• My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. (Mira Sorvino)
• My mother and father's upbringing made me very conscious of trying not to hurt other people. (Mira Sorvino) [mother/people]
• My whole thing is characterization. I like playing separate people; it's never about one quality. (Mira Sorvino) [thing/people/quality]
• 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. (Mira Sorvino) [courage]
• Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. (Mira Sorvino)
• Performing may not be the most effective means to help the world, but if it can make people open their eyes a little toward fundamental humanity, then I guess I'm affecting that. (Mira Sorvino) [help/people/eyes]
• Recently, there's been more of a readiness to cast me without a fight, which is nice, although it means I have to be more selective now. (Mira Sorvino) [more/fight/nice/more]
• Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. (Mira Sorvino) [look]
• The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. (Mira Sorvino) [willpower/love]
• The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. (Mira Sorvino)
• 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) [give]
• 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) [being/school]
• We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. (Mira Sorvino) [reach/fear/love/people]
• When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. (Mira Sorvino) [mother]
• When I was younger I don't think I had a lot of self-confidence without the carapace of a character around me. (Mira Sorvino) [think/character]
• When I went back to Harvard, I just focused on school. My parents broke up that year. It was very traumatic for me. (Mira Sorvino) [school/parents]
• You always have to find the driving issues within the person. Everything else stems from that core. (Mira Sorvino) [find]
• You cannot let the head put the brakes on too much of the runaway horses of the emotional instrument, but you also can't let them go out of control or become self-indulgent. (Mira Sorvino) [control]
• You have to come in at the right point for the character at the top of the scene. (Mira Sorvino) [right/point/character/top]

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