Mia Wasikowska Quotes

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.