Mia Farrow quotes

Mia Farrow is an American actress and humanitarian, widely recognized for her work in film and her activism. Her notable roles include performances in "Rosemary's Baby" and several Woody Allen films. She has also gained international recognition for her efforts on behalf of children's rights. Here are 15 of her quotes:

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

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My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

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There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

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I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

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I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

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If you're brought up a Catholic and you've had 13 years of convent education with nuns, there's no way you ever get out from under that. I've accepted that fact about myself so there are certain things-like my lost saint-that sometimes are not so lost.

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Having such a large family can be challenging. I won't deny that. But they're just great kids so you just deal with everything. There's very few things in my life that I regret. If I could change anything, maybe I wish I had learnt and done certain things earlier. I would have liked to have continued in school longer. I would have been interested in living in Africa and perhaps trained as a pediatrician.

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Well, I didn't lose my faith in God and in my own commitment to what I think my religion means to me but I did lose faith in Rome. I was horrified that the Pope at the time of the Rwandan massacre- this is a Catholic country, Rwanda-made no attempt to go there and to halt the killing. And I mean, who among us would not have tried? And on the contrary many of the perpetrators were actually sheltered. So I disengaged with my faith at that point. And then when I went to Darfur some 10 years later, by then I had cast away any allegiance to Rome and I saw -- you know, if only we'd had a Pope like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for example, who was engaged on the issues that concerned the most needy of humanity.

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Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

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You learn by going where you have to go.

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I took a long period off to be a mom.

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Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

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I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

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