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" 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. "

Mia Wasikowska

Brain

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

" 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. "

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

" I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me. "

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" I'm a huge sucker for comfort. "

" Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three. "

" 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. "

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

" I rarely meet other young actors. "

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

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" I was shy at school. "

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School

Shy

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

Mia Wasikowska

I Can

Photography

" I love seeing my family. "

" Dance is such a stressful environment. "

" 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. "

" I definitely have an appreciation for fashion. "

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

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

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

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

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Acting

Emotion

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

" 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. "