“When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and pe...” — Mira Sorvino Quote

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they don't have to agree with me in general. I'm not here to be loved by everybody. I want to be. But I don't think it's humanly possible to be unanimously loved. But I think I've voiced it clearly that I'm not here to be a baby doll.

When I was a kid, I had a rag doll named Lucy, whom I took everywhere with me. I lost her when I was 12.

I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.