Mira Sorvino Quotes

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

People always told me that nothing would match my face, my structure other than roles of sophisticated, educated women. I felt it was an insult to me.

I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

One of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give you is: Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. If you're in high school, there are definitely things being said about you. Don't let them determine who you are.

I'm not image-obsessed.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

MS doesn't define who I am.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

Ego is good.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.