"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am"
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She’s also doing a kind of public diplomacy. "I don't disparage those things that I did" reads like preemptive damage control, an acknowledgment that earlier projects still have audiences, colleagues, and personal stakes attached. In Hollywood, trashing your back catalog can look ungrateful, or worse, unhireable. Sorvino sidesteps that trap by separating value judgments from identity: those works aren't "bad", they're just not "reflective of who I am". The subtext is about self-definition in an industry that constantly defines you: by your breakout, your commercial viability, your tabloid footprint, your awards narrative.
Coming from Sorvino, the context matters. Her career has been publicly discussed as one shaped not only by taste but by power dynamics and gatekeeping. This quote functions as a soft but pointed act of boundary-setting: I am not my survival choices. I am choosing the material I love, and I am saying so out loud.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sorvino, Mira. (2026, January 16). I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-doing-things-that-are-more-artistic-again-more-93469/
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Sorvino, Mira. "I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-doing-things-that-are-more-artistic-again-more-93469/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-doing-things-that-are-more-artistic-again-more-93469/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.





