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Mia Wasikowska [1989-0] Australian

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Actress

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem.

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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.		101
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.		102
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.	Age	103
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.		104
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.		105
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?'		106
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.		107
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.		108
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.		109
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.		110
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.		111
I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.		112
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.	Equality	113
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.		114
I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.		115
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.		116
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.		117
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.		118
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.		119
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.		120
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.		121
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.		122
Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.		123
I rarely meet other young actors.		124
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.		125
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.		126
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.		201
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.		202
I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.		203
I want to just do my job and do it well.		204
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.		205
It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.		206
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.		207
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.		208
The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.		209
I was shy at school.		210
What I like about film is it explores imperfections.		211
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.		212
Dance is such a stressful environment.		213
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.		214
There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect.		215
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.		216
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.		217
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.		218
I love Europe.		219
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.		220
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.		221
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.		222
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.		223
Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.		224
I'm a huge sucker for comfort.		225
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.		226
I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.		301
I love seeing my family.		302
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.		303
I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.		304
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.		305
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.		306
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.		307
I like to think of myself as an observer.		308
Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.		309
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.		310

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