Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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

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

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.

When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I hadn't worked with anybody who used storyboards before so he obviously had a very precise way as to how he visualized the film from the very beginning. It was every scene, but to his credit he was incredibly collaborative and gave us many opportunities to have our own input and to change things with him, so it was a really great way of working.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

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

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

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

I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for.

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.

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.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I come from a background of independent films.

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.

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.

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.

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

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.

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

I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful.

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

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

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

Dance is such a stressful environment.

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

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.

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.

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.