Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
— Mia Wasikowska
Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
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.
I love seeing my family.
I rarely meet other young actors.
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.
I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
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.
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.
It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.
Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
Dance is such a stressful environment.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
I was shy at school.
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 think of myself as an observer.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
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.
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
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 start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
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 was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
I love Europe.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
