Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I don’t just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don’t get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I’m inhabiting right now.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn’t feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

I went to Europe and, as I’ve been told, ate my way out of a career.

I think more than anything, I think I’d really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn’t messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

‘Breathe In’ was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through ‘Backstage Magazine’ and applying for student films.

It’s pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

I’m not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone’s socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.