Quotes by Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis

‘Breathe In’ was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through ‘Backstage Magazine’ and applying for student films.

Firsts

Magazines

Students

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn’t feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I’d have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.

Church

College

People

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

Actresses

Epitome

Type

As a viewer, I’m personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they’re going to survive in a world that doesn’t necessarily invite them in.

Class

Dream

White

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that’s not something you can stand behind – it confuses me. I think it’s a really great word.

Feminism

Rights

Thinking

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what’s meaningful to you – and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

Meaningful

Thinking

World

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don’t go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can’t talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

Purses

Shopping

Way

I don’t just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don’t get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

Frustrated

Pay

Way

I don’t want to be precious or weird . It’s lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it’s not as if I’ve done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it’s more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.

Lovely

People

Responsibility

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Canada

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Coats

College

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Elements

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Epitome

Expectations

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Falling In Love

Feelings

Feet

Feminism

Firsts

Frustrated

Fun

Fur

Games

Girl

Girlfriend

Good Friend

Growing Up

Guy

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Hollywood

I Hate

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Long

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Quotes by Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis

‘Breathe In’ was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through ‘Backstage Magazine’ and applying for student films.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn’t feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

As a viewer, I’m personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they’re going to survive in a world that doesn’t necessarily invite them in.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that’s not something you can stand behind – it confuses me. I think it’s a really great word.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what’s meaningful to you – and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don’t go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can’t talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

I don’t just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don’t get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

I don’t want to be precious or weird . It’s lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it’s not as if I’ve done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it’s more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.

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