Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a constant sort of strain and you have to hold yourself in a certain way. It's very uncomfortable. But again you instantly understand the repression that women feel and how much they were captives. It's sort of sad really.

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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.

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I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

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

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I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

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It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.

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With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.

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It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

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When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

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Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

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I think it's possible to have the kind of career you really want if you want to. You just don't do the things you don't want to and you just have to be cool with waiting for something to come around that you really feel passionate for.

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I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

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To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

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I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.

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What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

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I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

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You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

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Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

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I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

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Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

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In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

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