Mia Wasikowska Quotes
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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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I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.
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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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I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
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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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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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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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The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
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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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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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I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
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Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.
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Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.
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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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Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
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Dance is such a stressful environment.
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I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.
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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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I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene.
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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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I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
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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.
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Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
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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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There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is.
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What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
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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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As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
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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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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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