Mira Sorvino Quotes

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.