Mia Wasikowska famous quotes

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Eye #Challenges #Projects

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Expectations #Age #Way

Dance is such a stressful environment.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Dance #Environment #Stressful

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Accents #Instant

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Acting #Three #Actors

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Way #Roles #Helping

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Thinking #Film

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Trying #Different #Film

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Fashion #Appreciation

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Believe

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Dance #Way #Intense

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Dance #Acting #World

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Imperfection #Film

I want to just do my job and do it well.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Jobs #Want #Wells

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Teenager #Loner #Events

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Acting #Actors #Emotion

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Waiting #Actors #Casts

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Independent #Kind #Film

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Character #Play #Empathy

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Dance #Nerves #Energy

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Photography #Expression

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
-- Mia Wasikowska

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Simple #Feminism #Stuff

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Girl #Dancer #Insecurity

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Russia #Age #World

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Comfort #Sucker

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Character

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Character

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Thinking #Two #Roles

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Trying #Want #Pace

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Hollywood #Starlets #Persons

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.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Character #Pieces #Lasts

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Character #Empathy

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Lonely #Independent #Thinking

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#People #Know Me #Anonymity