76+ Mia Wasikowska Quotes On Beauty, Johnny Depp And Talented

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in Alice in Wonderland, Crimson Peak and Stoker. She has also appeared in the TV series In Treatment and the film Tracks. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mia Wasikowska on love, life, beauty.

Top 10 Mia Wasikowska Quotes

1. I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
2. I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
3. I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
4. I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
5. I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
6. Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
7. I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
8. Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
9. Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
10. As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Mia Wasikowska Short Quotes

• I want to just do my job and do it well.
• I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.
• I come from a background of independent films.
• Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
• What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
• Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
• With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
• I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
• The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
• Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Mia Wasikowska Quotes About Love

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal. — Mia Wasikowska

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character. — Mia Wasikowska

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety. — Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Mia Wasikowska

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun. — Mia Wasikowska

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me. — Mia Wasikowska

I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for. — Mia Wasikowska

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

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you. — Mia Wasikowska

I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times. — Mia Wasikowska

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women. — Mia Wasikowska

He [directo Park] gave me a sculpture, a jaguar. It is the animal, obviously, and it is in my bedroom at my parents' place at the moment. But I am just about to move into my own place and I shall put it somewhere there. I shall make sure it has good lighting. This will be my first place of my own and I am so excited. — Mia Wasikowska

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things. — Mia Wasikowska

I like characters who remind me of someone I know. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion. — Mia Wasikowska

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing. — Mia Wasikowska

Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas! — Mia Wasikowska

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15. — Mia Wasikowska

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. — Mia Wasikowska

I think that because most films where there's a teenager, it's aimed at a teenage audience. Restless is - I wouldn't classify it as a teen film, strictly, but it's definitely a film that appeals to young people, but also gives them credit for their complexity. — Mia Wasikowska

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there. — Mia Wasikowska

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person. — Mia Wasikowska

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home. — Mia Wasikowska

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well. — Mia Wasikowska

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. — Mia Wasikowska

It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun. — Mia Wasikowska

There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is. — Mia Wasikowska

I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful. — Mia Wasikowska

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

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress. — Mia Wasikowska

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun. — Mia Wasikowska

I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting. — Mia Wasikowska

Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really. — Mia Wasikowska

One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy. — Mia Wasikowska

I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut. — Mia Wasikowska

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that. — Mia Wasikowska

I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age. — Mia Wasikowska

Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive. — Mia Wasikowska

Dance is such a stressful environment. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play. — Mia Wasikowska

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge. — Mia Wasikowska

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set. — Mia Wasikowska

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype. — Mia Wasikowska

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. — Mia Wasikowska

Life Lessons by Mia Wasikowska

1. Mia Wasikowska has taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to great success. She has also shown us that it is possible to take risks and explore different types of roles in order to challenge yourself and grow as an actor. Lastly, she has demonstrated that it is possible to have a successful career in the entertainment industry while still maintaining a sense of personal integrity.