Quotes by Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska

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

Acting

Actors

Emotion

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

Character

Empathy

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.

Kind

Teenager

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business.

Actors

Casts

Waiting

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you’re on film or going for an audition.

Acting

Ballet

Roles

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.

Acting

Dance

Inspirational

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

Dance

Inspirational

Way

Dance is such a stressful environment.

Dance

Environment

Inspirational

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Dancer

Girl

Insecurity

Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

Girl

People

Uncles

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Calm

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Cutting

Dad

Dance

Dancer

Dancing

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Different

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Eggs

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Quotes by Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska

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

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

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.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business.

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you’re on film or going for an audition.

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

Dance is such a stressful environment.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

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