Emily Browning

“After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.”

“In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.”

“I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?”

“The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.”

“I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.”

“It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'”

“'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.”

“If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.”

“I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.”

“What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.”

“When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.”

“For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.”

“I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.”

“I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'”

“With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.”

“For me, I see filmmaking as art.”

“What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.”

“I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.”

“With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.”

“I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.”