Mia Goth

“I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.”

“My first memories are of Brazil. There's so much music there. It's one of my favourite places in the world.”

“I just want to act. And I want to be good. And I want to be happy, and I think that's it.”

“I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.”

“'The Survivalist' really makes you think. It stays with you.”

“I was very girly growing up; I loved pink and doing my makeup and doing my hair and painting my nails.”

“I remember putting mascara on when I was 13 for the first time and going to the shop to buy a chocolate bar. I felt so exposed. I remember wearing a bra for the first time and feeling very exposed by that.”

“If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.”

“When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.”

“Being an actor is a nomadic profession, and I just try to feel at home wherever I am at that moment.”

“At 14, I was beehived out. I'm glad there are no pictures!”

“When I'm in Brazil, I'm not Brazilian at all; I am a gringo. And then when I'm in England, I'm not really English, but when I lived in Canada, I was considered too English. So I never really felt like I clicked somewhere or that I belonged to one place.”

“I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.”

“When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.”

“I am obsessed with cinema and its history.”

“I think any actor, if they had the choice, would opt for challenging roles that test their capabilities.”

“My name is actually Mia Gypsy - my mum said she named me that because of everywhere I'm from. She felt that I'd always be roaming from place to place, and I've always felt like that.”

“I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.”

“I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!”

“I'm all for art-house foreign directors - I think they make terrific films - and I'm also for the bigger budget movies. It just depends on what the character is, the director, the script.”