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Mira Sorvino

"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Donna Grant

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

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Donna Grant

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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Donna Grant

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

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Donna Grant

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

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Mira Sorvino
"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."

Acting

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Mira Sorvino
"I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base."

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Mira Sorvino
"Acting is what happens on the way."

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Mira Sorvino
"Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on."

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Mira Sorvino
"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."

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Mira Sorvino
"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."

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Mira Sorvino
"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."

Acting

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Mira Sorvino
"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."

People

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Mira Sorvino
"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."

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Mira Sorvino
"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."

Famous

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