Quotes from Mia Wasikowska

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

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.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

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.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

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.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

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.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

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

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

I was shy at school.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

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.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

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.

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