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" Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. "
Mia Wasikowska
Insecurities
Young
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" I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well. "
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" I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. "
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" 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. "
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" I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with. "
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" 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. "
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" I rarely meet other young actors. "
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" I'm a huge sucker for comfort. "
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" Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. "
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" 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. "
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" As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. "
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" I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles. "
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" I love seeing my family. "
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" 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?' "
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" Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you. "
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" With a corset on, you can't breathe properly. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to just do my job and do it well. "
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" I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me. "
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" Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you. "
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" When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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