If I'm having a stressful day, I can look at the sky and feel centered again and realize I'm just a tiny little dot in this whole universe and that, actually, everything's going to be just fine.
— Mia Goth
Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.
My first memories are of Brazil. There's so much music there. It's one of my favourite places in the world.
I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.
Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.
I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse with the beehive and ballet shoes. Six months into that, I looked into the mirror and decided I'd better be Mia.
A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.
I like to run. I think it's good, you can do it anywhere, you don't a gym, I just think it's really easy to do.
I admire JLo because she succeeded in breaking through and harmonizing two different cultures.
I've never seen the two 'Ghostbuster' movies.
My name is actually Mia Gypsy - my mum said she named me that because of everywhere I'm from. She felt that I'd always be roaming from place to place, and I've always felt like that.
For the most part, I don't do anything to my brows. They aren't bleached, just naturally light. Maybe when I was a little kid, I thought they were strange, but I realized as I got older, the things that make you different are the things that are special about you.
I think it's important to change your hair up once in a while - not to always remain the same.
I think any actor, if they had the choice, would opt for challenging roles that test their capabilities.
When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.
I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.
I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.
Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.
I just want to act. And I want to be good. And I want to be happy, and I think that's it.
I see myself as a professional feeler.
At 14, I was beehived out. I'm glad there are no pictures!
I never had a proper modeling career. It was not something I succeeded in. Once I started acting, that's when the fashion world kind of embraced me.
I'm a bit of a grandma: I don't really understand the Twitter and the Instagram.
My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.
I'll take a multi-vitamin in the morning. I think that always helps.
If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.
There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.
I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.
Blush is really fresh and young, really invigorating. I like it more than bronzer. I think it's just a bit more lively.
If people remember me for any scene in a Lars von Trier film, I'm extremely honoured and forever grateful.
'The Survivalist' really makes you think. It stays with you.
When I'm in Brazil, I'm not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I'm in England, I'm not really English, but when I lived in Canada, I was considered too English. So I never really felt like I clicked somewhere or that I belonged to one place.
It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.
When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.
I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.
I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.
I'm interested in psychology and how your surroundings can influence your character, and because of that, I think I try and take the very best from a situation, good or bad, and constantly work on myself.
I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.
I remember putting mascara on when I was 13 for the first time and going to the shop to buy a chocolate bar. I felt so exposed. I remember wearing a bra for the first time and feeling very exposed by that.
I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!
I really wanted to go Russia. I'm really interested in Russian history, so I'd like to go and put a face to what I've read.
I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.
I am obsessed with cinema and its history.
Being an actor is a nomadic profession, and I just try to feel at home wherever I am at that moment.
Those are my favorite kinds of movies, where the plots are quite small and character-driven.
Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.
In the lead-up to 'The Survivalist,' I saw a trainer five times a week, and I'd run an hour a day.
I'm all for art-house foreign directors - I think they make terrific films - and I'm also for the bigger budget movies. It just depends on what the character is, the director, the script.
The fashion world has become a lot more embracing of me since I became an actress.
A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.
