Quotes from Mia Wasikowska

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

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.

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

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

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 want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

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.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

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've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.

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.

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.

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.

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?'

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

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.