Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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.

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.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

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

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

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.

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!

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

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

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

I was shy at school.

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.

It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.

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.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

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

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 probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

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

I love seeing my family.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

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

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

I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.

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

I rarely meet other young actors.

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

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

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.

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.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

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.

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.

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

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

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.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun.

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

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.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

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.

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.

He [directo Park] gave me a sculpture, a jaguar. It is the animal, obviously, and it is in my bedroom at my parents' place at the moment. But I am just about to move into my own place and I shall put it somewhere there. I shall make sure it has good lighting. This will be my first place of my own and I am so excited.

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

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.

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

One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.

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

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

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.