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" The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things. "
Mia Wasikowska
Feel
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" I want to just do my job and do it well. "
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" 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. "
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" I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set. "
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" Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. "
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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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" 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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" I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me. "
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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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" As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion. "
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" The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character. "
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" Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. "
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" Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters. "
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