122 Quotes by Mia Wasikowska

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

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.

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.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

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?'

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

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

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