Wasikowska: "I like to think of myself as an observer."

Wasikowska: "When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are."

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

Wasikowska: "I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me."

Wasikowska: "Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down."

Wasikowska: "With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy."

Wasikowska: "As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough."

Wasikowska: "I was shy at school."

Wasikowska: "When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images."

Wasikowska: "I'm a huge sucker for comfort."

Wasikowska: "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."

Wasikowska: "I love seeing my family."

Wasikowska: "I want to just do my job and do it well."

Wasikowska: "You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool."

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

Wasikowska: "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?'"

Wasikowska: "I would hope everyone would be a feminist."

Wasikowska: "I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person."

Wasikowska: "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."

Wasikowska: "I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me."