Mira Sorvino Quotes

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

I've got three beautiful kids that wear me out after I get home from practice. I think that's a good thing so I'm able to get my rest.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don't really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week's going to be like.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Work cures everything.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.

I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

I do some really intense roles and it's not good to bring them home.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!