Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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.
Mia Wasikowska

Age, Question, Choose

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

Single, Social, Loner

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.
Mia Wasikowska

Character, Last, Step

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

Acting, Actor, Emotion

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
Mia Wasikowska

Time, Character, Real

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

Empathy, Characters, Troubled

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.
Mia Wasikowska

Passion, Enough, Energy

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

Business, Someone, Wait

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.
Mia Wasikowska

Acting, Dance, Easy

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

Person, Become, Dance

Dance is such a stressful environment.
Mia Wasikowska

Dance, Stressful

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

Young, State, Pressure

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

Yourself, Playing, Accent

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

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

Acting, Since, Three

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

Fame, Ways, Useful

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

Equality, Simple, Down

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

Time, Character, Live

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

Thinking, Learn, Start

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

Different, Try, Learn

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
Mia Wasikowska

Fashion, Definitely

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
Mia Wasikowska

Person, Hollywood, Consider

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

Trying, Working, Keep

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.
Mia Wasikowska

Two, Excited, Role

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
Mia Wasikowska

Someone, Characters, Remind

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Born: October 14, 1989

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