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I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
I rarely meet other young actors.
Dance is such a stressful environment.
I want to just do my job and do it well.
I like to think of myself as an observer.
I would hope everyone would be a feminist.
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
I come from a background of independent films.
I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
What I like about film is it explores imperfections.
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.
Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.
I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.
I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
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.
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
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.
It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.
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.
In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.
Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.