Sarah Gadon Quotes
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The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
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It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. 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.
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You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
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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.
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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.
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If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
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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.
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I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!
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If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, 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 - and I think that's really important.
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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's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.
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You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.
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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.
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It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.
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Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.
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As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
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You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and it totally changes everything that you thought it was going to be.