Quotes by Emily Browning

About Emily Browning:

Emily Jane Browning is an Australian film actress and singer. Browning made her film debut in the Australian television film The Echo of Thunder, subsequently, she played recurring roles in Australian television shows Blue Heelers and Something in the Air. Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship, which introduced her to a wider audience. In 2005, Browning won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Violet Baudelaire in the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
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I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

Emily Browning

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Emily Browning

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

Emily Browning

'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

Emily Browning

With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

Emily Browning

In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.

Emily Browning

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are c...

Emily Browning

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other ch...

Emily Browning

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

Emily Browning

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

Emily Browning

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

Emily Browning

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

Emily Browning

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

Emily Browning

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

Emily Browning

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

Emily Browning

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

Emily Browning

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

Emily Browning

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

Emily Browning

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Emily Browning

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

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Author Bio

  • NameEmily Browning
  • DescriptionAustralian actress, model, singer
  • BornDecember 7, 1988
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionActor; Singer