Top 33 Mia Wasikowska Quotes

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

There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren’t perfect.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

I like my anonymity – that when I meet people they don’t know me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

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

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.

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I’ve worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

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

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

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

I like to think of myself as an observer.

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

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’m a huge sucker for comfort.

I rarely meet other young actors.

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.

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

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.

I love Europe.

With both acting and ballet, often you can’t just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.

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

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

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.

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