Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things.

Actors actually have a feeling, like a sixth sense. They are like mediums. But it only works - you can only become this medium or this vessel to transport emotions and images and feelings - if you are not too full of yourself. Otherwise, there wouldn't be space for a story to live inside of you or a world to evolve in you and around you.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.