Sarah Gadon Quotes

#1. When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.

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#2. I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

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#3. I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

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#4. The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

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#5. I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

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#6. I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

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#7. I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

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#8. When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

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#9. You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

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#10. It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

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#11. I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

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#12. If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

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#13. I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university.

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#14. Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

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#15. You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

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#16. Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

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#17. I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

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#18. If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.

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#19. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

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#20. In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

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#21. I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.

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#22. I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

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#23. My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

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#24. When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.

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#25. When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.

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