Mira Sorvino Quotes

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.