Mira Sorvino

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

Being is like pretending.

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.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.