“I can walk down the street and have a human experience every day.”

“I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.”

“I feel like biopics are so difficult to get around.”

“I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.”

“I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.”

“I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia.”

“I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'”

“I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called 'The Uncommon Reader,' which is a fiction: it's about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it's so sweet.”

“I really like Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in the winter because it has SPF, and it's still important to protect your skin from the sun in the wintertime. I'm also really into also vera - just organic, natural aloe vera gel that I put on all over my skin to moisturize.”

“I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.”

“I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.”

“I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?”

“I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.”

“I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.”

“I think it's really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I'm investing in for me. And I'm my own product as an actor. There's a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I'm making choices to obtain that.”

“I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.”

“I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.”

“I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.”

“I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!”

“If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.”

“If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.”

“I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university.”

“I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.”

“I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'”

“I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.”

“I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.”

“It varies, but in my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create.”

“It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.”

“It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.”

“It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used.”

“It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.”

“It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.”

“It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.”

“I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.”

“Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.”

“My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.”

“Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.”

“Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.”

“Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.”

“That's the amazing thing about our jobs; it's constantly changing, and it's extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.”

“The kinds of films that I'm used to doing are independent films. They're very small character-driven pieces, and there isn't as much spectacle involved.”

“The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.”

“This might be really weird, but The Body Shop has a tea tree oil stick that you can put on zits, and it makes your zits go away.”

“What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?”

“When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.”

“When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.”

“When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me, as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.”

“When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.”

“When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.”

“Working with Mr. Armani is such an incredible experience because he's so creative and such a visionary, and Linda Cantello is amazing and a true artist.”

“You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.”

“You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.”