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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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Mia Wasikowska
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: October 25
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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.
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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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Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to just do my job and do it well.
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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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Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
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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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Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
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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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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 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.
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I come from a background of independent films.
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I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.
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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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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.
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I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
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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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