Mia Wasikowska Quotes

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

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

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

You got to constantly be in character.

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.