Mira Sorvino Quotes

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Love without conversation is impossible.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.