Mia Wasikowska 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.

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

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.

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

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.

I want to just do my job and do it well.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

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

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.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

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.

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

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

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

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

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.

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 is such a stressful environment.

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

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

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I come from a background of independent films.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

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.

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.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

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.

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.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

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.

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.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.