Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Eye, Challenges, Projects

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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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Book, Home, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

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  People, Know Me, Knows

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• I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

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  Comfort, Sucker, Huge

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• 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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Simple, Feminism, Stuff

  "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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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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  Wall, Character, Eggs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Differences, People, Understanding

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Hate, Ocean, Australia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really.

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  Mean, Relax, Moments

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Passionate

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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  Technology, Our World, Way

  Source: collider.com

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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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  People, Brave, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Fun, Kids, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Real, Energy, Calm

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Expectations, Age, Way

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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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  Girl, Uncles, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Tools, Actresses, Physicality

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Dancing

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Character, Finals, Pieces

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2011.

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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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  Character, Play, Empathy

  "Mia Wasikowska Interview JANE EYRE; Updates on RESTLESS and THE WETTEST COUNTY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2011.

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

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  Great Experiences

  "Mia Wasikowska Interview Jane Eyre; Updates on Restless and the Wettest County". Press Day Interview, collider.com. March 08, 2011.

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

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  Acting, Three, Actors

  "'Alice In Wonderland' Star Mia Wasikowska Explains How She And Tim Burton Made Alice Their Own". www.mtv.com. February 01, 2010.

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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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  Character, Different, Language

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

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  Jobs, Want, Wells

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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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character, Essence, Film

  Source: collider.com

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