Top 35 Sarah Gadon Quotes

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

I feel like biopics are so difficult to get around.

I’ve studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

I’m not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

It varies, but in my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.

When you look at something that’s so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK’s assassination, for me, as an actor, you’re still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?

I’m a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I’m certainly not the first person to be working while I’m in university.

Working with Mr. Armani is such an incredible experience because he’s so creative and such a visionary, and Linda Cantello is amazing and a true artist.

Since ‘A Dangerous Method,’ I’ve had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of ‘Drive.’ And they all have the same thing in common; they say: ‘Wow you worked with Cronenberg.’ He gave me instant film cred.

It’s so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don’t choose to work that way.

If you’ve ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it’s about the resilience of love and how much you’re willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.

I think everyone’s had that moment where you’re sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm’s projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you’re confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

I’m trying to be a working actor. I’m not in pursuit of fame. I’m not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

I really like Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in the winter because it has SPF, and it’s still important to protect your skin from the sun in the wintertime. I’m also really into also vera – just organic, natural aloe vera gel that I put on all over my skin to moisturize.

I think it’s really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I’m investing in for me. And I’m my own product as an actor. There’s a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I’m making choices to obtain that.

I think I’ll always base myself out of Toronto. I don’t have any plans to move to L.A.

I’m a really proud, happy Canadian. I think we’ve got it figured out in our country. For example, gay marriage has just been legalized in all of the U.S. and it’s like, ‘Wow, hashtag lovewins,’ but that’s not necessarily a leap forward compared to what we’ve already experienced in Canada years ago.

Without disruptions in life, where would we be?

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you’re working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For ‘Antiviral,’ for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,’ and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It’s all about scopophilia.

I love film, and I love short films.

It was a very critical moment for me when I began working with David Cronenberg and seeing this amazing director and creator choose to base himself out of Toronto.

That’s the amazing thing about our jobs; it’s constantly changing, and it’s extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It’s important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they’re going – in order to exist in that state of being.

I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called ‘The Uncommon Reader,’ which is a fiction: it’s about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it’s so sweet.

I’m part of a generation that’s saying, ‘I don’t want to do just one thing, and I’m going to do things the way I want.’

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.

When I sit down with filmmakers, I feel like we speak the same language in a lot of ways. We watch the same movies and have the same influences. If anything, it creates a dialogue that makes my work more effective.