Sarah Gadon Quotes

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Sarah Gadon

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 4, 1987

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 think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.

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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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I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

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I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

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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 a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

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I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia.

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You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.

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I think it's really important for artists in general to invest in themselves. And I view my schoolwork as something I'm investing in for me. And I'm my own product as an actor. There's a kind of career that I want, and I feel like I'm making choices to obtain that.

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It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.

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I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.

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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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It varies, but 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.

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It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. 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 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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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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I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

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The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

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I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'

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