Mia Wasikowska
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.Collection: Equality
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
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 want to just do my job and do it well.
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 got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.
I was shy at school.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
Dance is such a stressful environment.
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
I love Europe.
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
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 was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
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.
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
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.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
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.
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 definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
I rarely meet other young actors.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.
I love seeing my family.
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
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.