Mira Sorvino Quotes

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 'this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be doing.' Since I've started coming to the States, I've had a really great response. It's given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices.

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.