Quotes by Mira Sorvino

“Theres a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...theres a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!”

“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.”

“Yeah. Theyre never easy to do. I dont like doing sex scenes! I feel theyre really miserable to make.”

“You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and theyre really excited for you? Well, thats whats happening to me right now.”

“I (didnt) want to feel embarrassed doing this really zany character.”

“These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.”

“The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, theyre not going to see the signs and think to call the police.”

“We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about what she is doing, because shes having to look backward into her own vulnerability as well as using all her training and strength,”

“There was a sort of diagram. Everything else that was said was really stuff that came out of our own heads.”

“Were going to be a family of four.”

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

Now that Ive got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.