Mira Sorvino Quotes

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.