Top 19 Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn’t like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

I’ve been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don’t know how much I’ve learned over the years.

I’ve just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

As a viewer, I’m personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they’re going to survive in a world that doesn’t necessarily invite them in.

I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There’s also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It’s a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can’t engage in that kind of stuff because I’ll never stop. So I no longer play any games.

I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn’t messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

I think – more than anything, I think I’d really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it’s a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I’d do very well.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what’s meaningful to you – and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

I just think ‘Broad City’ – Comedy Central’s answer to ‘Girls’ – is the best thing that’s been put on television in years. It’s amazing.

The first two or three movies I did, I’d be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn’t care, but inside, I was shaking. I’ve been weaning myself off that.

I’m not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone’s socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don’t really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it’s a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.