Mia Farrow

María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.

Quotes

 * You learn by going where you have to go.
 * Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Women: Classic and Contemporary Quotes, ed. Tod Haffer, p. 86


 * I get it now. I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible...and enjoying everything in between.
 * On life experiences, quoted in NPR piece


 * 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.
 * Reflections on her life, quoted in The Independent, 2006


 * 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.
 * On her religious upbringing, quoted in The Independent, 2006


 * On this planet 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. I’m talking to you now because they can’t and I hope to be a voice for them. They need support.
 * On human rights, quoted in MSNBC piece (August 28, 2013)


 * 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.
 * On her relationship with the Roman Catholic church, interview with Piers Morgan and Martin Sheen, 2013

What Falls Away (1997)

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


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