Top 82 Mia Wasikowska Quotes
#1. There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.
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#2. Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.
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#3. When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.
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#4. I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.
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#5. Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.
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#6. As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
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#7. Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
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#8. In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.
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#9. I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
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#10. I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
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#11. It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.
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#12. Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
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#13. When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.
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#14. Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
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#15. My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
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#16. Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!
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#17. I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
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#18. To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.
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#19. It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'
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#20. I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.
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#21. The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
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#22. Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.
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#24. I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.
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#25. We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.
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#26. I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
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#28. I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
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#29. I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
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#30. I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
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#31. With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
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#32. I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
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#33. When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
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#34. I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.
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#35. You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.
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#36. All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
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#37. Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
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#39. Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
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#40. I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
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#41. I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
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#43. I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.
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#44. The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
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#46. Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
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#47. Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
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#48. I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
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#49. You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.
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#50. It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
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#51. I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.
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#52. You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
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#54. Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
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#55. Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
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#56. I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.
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#57. You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
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#58. I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
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#60. With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
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#61. Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
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#62. Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.
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#63. Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
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#64. What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
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#65. Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.
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#66. Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
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#68. I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.
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#69. Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
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#70. The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
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#71. I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.
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#72. As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
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#73. I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
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#76. I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
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#77. I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
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#79. I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
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#80. Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
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#81. I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
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#82. I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
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