Penelope Mitchell Quotes

#1. My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

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#2. I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living.

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#3. I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

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#4. I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

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#5. T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.

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#6. I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.

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#7. When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

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#8. Personally, I know the lifestyle I lead is really busy. If I want to watch an entire series of something, it usually has to be in one weekend. I'll dedicate two days to it because it's not the kind of thing I can come back to, every night. I think this is a really smart format.

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#9. At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course outside of university. So I was at school all day writing, and in the evenings I'd go to drama school. So it was nonstop.

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#10. Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

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#11. Ever since I can remember, I've worn big black boots. They are super warm and get me where I need to go.

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