Quotes from Mira Sorvino

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.

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 always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

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.

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

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.

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

Being is like pretending.

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 had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace.

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.

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.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

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

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.

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