Emily Browning Quotes

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 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.

I’d rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of ‘entertaining’ film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I was lucky – the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

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.

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 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.

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I’ve always found that easier than laughing in films.

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.