Top 50 Mia Wasikowska Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want to just do my job and do it well.”

— Mia Wasikowska

2. “I would hope everyone would be a feminist.”

— Mia Wasikowska

3. “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.”

— Mia Wasikowska

4. “With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.”

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5. “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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6. “I come from a background of independent films.”

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7. “It’s hard to tell what people realize. Everybody’s different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.”

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

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9. “Even if you’re independent, I think you get lonely.”

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10. “I like my anonymity – that when I meet people they don’t know me.”

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11. “I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.”

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12. “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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13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.”

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16. “Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.”

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17. “I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.”

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18. “I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.”

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19. “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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20. “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.”

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21. “I like characters who remind me of someone I know.”

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22. “I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.”

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23. “Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you’re playing a part.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “What I like about film is it explores imperfections.”

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26. “I’ve had a great experience with pretty much everybody I’ve worked with.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “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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30. “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.”

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

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32. “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.”

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33. “I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else’s character.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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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36. “I’m a huge sucker for comfort.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.”

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

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40. “I think it’s really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.”

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41. “Dance is such a stressful environment.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.”

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

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45. “I like to be absorbed in what my character’s doing.”

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46. “Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It’s wholly my own expressions.”

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47. “I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.”

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48. “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!”

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49. “I don’t consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.”

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50. “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