Top 46 Sorvino Quotes

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

Mira Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#3. Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

Paul Sorvino

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.

Paul Sorvino

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#7. Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

Paul Sorvino

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#8. I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem

Mira Sorvino

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#9. Acting is what happens on the way.

Mira Sorvino

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#10. One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.

Mira Sorvino

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#11. 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.

Mira Sorvino

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#12. I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.

Mira Sorvino

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#13. I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Mira Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#15. 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

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#16. Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

Paul Sorvino

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#17. 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!

Mira Sorvino

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#18. 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

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#19. I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Mira Sorvino

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#20. 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

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#21. There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

Paul Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#23. 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

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#24. I have such an image of a mafioso.

Paul Sorvino

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#25. The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

Mira Sorvino

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#26. Being is like pretending.

Mira Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#28. 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

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#29. People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

Paul Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#31. My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mira Sorvino

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#32. I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

Paul Sorvino

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#33. 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

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#34. 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.

Mira Sorvino

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#35. You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Mira Sorvino

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#36. 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

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#37. 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

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#38. I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.

Paul Sorvino

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#39. 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.

Mira Sorvino

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

Mira Sorvino

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#41. 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

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#42. 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

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#43. 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

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#44. 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

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

Mira Sorvino

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#46. 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

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