Mackenzie Davis famous quotes

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Beautiful #Thinking #Body

I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Thinking #Passionate #Stubborn

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Fur #Coats #Stuff

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Meaningful #Thinking #World

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Thinking #Rights #Feminism

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#People #Way #Moved

I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#My Way

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#College #Paris #Expectations

I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Sex #Fun #Thumbs Up

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#People #Superficial #Very Deep

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Ideas #People #Decision

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Sneakers #Feet #Joy

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Good Friend #Thinking #Guy

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Play #People #Needs

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Frustrated #Pay #Way

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Dream #Class #White

One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Feelings #Social Media #Reason

I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#People #Lovely #Lucky

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Computer #Our Relationship #Our Lives

You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Beautiful #Girlfriend #Character

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Actresses #Type #Epitome

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Growing Up #Princess #Brides

I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Together #Tasks #Elements

I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Games #Play #Personality

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Holiday #Canada #Love Thanksgiving

I feel really comfortable when the camera is rolling. I feel less comfortable in the moments before and after, like, "Okay, where do I sit now?" I find the social aspect of being on a project ... it's just a lot. There are so many new people, and it's a lot of introducing the most charming, most engaging, funniest version of yourself to, essentially, a bunch of strangers you already know too many details about.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#People #Stranger #Moments

I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Long #People #Social Media

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Hate #Choices #I Hate

I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Thinking #Being Me #Mediocre

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Character #Criticism #Sometimes

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.
-- Mackenzie Davis

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I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Responsibility #People #Lovely

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#World #Emotion #Nobody Knows

Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#College #People #Church

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Dream #Thinking #Technology

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Girl #Thinking #Years

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Strong #Destiny #Thinking

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Stars #Two #Three

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Shopping #Way #Purses

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Falling In Love #Too Much #Shelves

I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Long #Pet #Faces

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Thinking #World #Want

I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Jobs #Nice #Long

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#School #Mean #Games

I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Actresses #Sound #Hollywood

It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Years #Secret #Acting

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
-- Mackenzie Davis

#Magazines #Firsts #Students