Mia Farrow Quotes

María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than 50 films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award and three BAFTA Award nominations. Farrow is also known for her extensive work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, which includes humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.The daughter of Australian director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan, Farrow had in a strict Catholic upbringing in Beverly Hills, California. After working as a fashion model during her teenage years, she first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra, whom she married at age 22. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby , saw her nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as Follow Me! , The Great Gatsby , and Death on the Nile .

Farrow was in a relationship with actor-director Woody Allen from 1980 to 1992 and appeared in thirteen of his fourteen films over that period, including Zelig , Broadway Danny Rose , The Purple Rose of Cairo , Hannah and Her Sisters , Radio Days , Crimes and Misdemeanors , Alice , and Husbands and Wives . Her later film roles include Widows' Peak , The Omen , Be Kind Rewind , Dark Horse , and Luc Besson's Arthur series .

✵ 9. February 1945
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Famous Mia Farrow Quotes

“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 http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146083357/an-available-man-love-after-loss

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

What Falls Away (1997)

“You learn by going where you have to go.”

Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Women: Classic and Contemporary Quotes https://books.google.com/books?id=T2g32LwD_GwC&pg=PA86&dq=mia+farrow+quotes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9qLLYsq3TAhWGRSYKHT71C5MQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=mia%20farrow%20quotes&f=false, ed. Tod Haffer, p. 86

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