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

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

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

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

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

- 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

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

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

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

- Mira Sorvino

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

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

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

- Mira Sorvino

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

- Mira Sorvino

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

- Mira Sorvino

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

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

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

- Mira Sorvino

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

- Mira Sorvino

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

- Mira Sorvino

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

- Mira Sorvino