Quotes by Mia Wasikowska

About Mia Wasikowska:

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress and director. After starting her acting career in Australian television and film, she first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment. She gained worldwide prominence in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's $1 billion-grossing Alice in Wonderland and appearing in the comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right, a role for which she received the Hollywood Awards' Breakthrough Actress Award.
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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.

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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.

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It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

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I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

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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.

Mia Wasikowska

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.

Mia Wasikowska

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.

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I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

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Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

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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.

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I want to just do my job and do it well.

Mia Wasikowska

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.

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Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Mia Wasikowska

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

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Dance is such a stressful environment.

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Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

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Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

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I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

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Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

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I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

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Author Bio

  • NameMia Wasikowska
  • DescriptionAustralian actress
  • BornOctober 14, 1989
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionActor