Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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• The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
• 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…
• With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
• Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
• I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
• 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…
• 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…
• Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
• Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
• I want to just do my job and do it well.
• I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
• Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
• As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
• 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.
• Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
• Dance is such a stressful environment.
• Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

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