Sonoya Mizuno Quotes

Sonoya Mizuno

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 1, 1986

I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.

Sonoya Mizuno

For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban - there weren't a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn't good enough.

Sonoya Mizuno

I'm one of six and would be lost without my siblings. We're really close. They always understand what I'm going through.

Sonoya Mizuno

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things with an eye towards perfection. But in acting, it isn't always necessarily good to be like that - really magical things can happen when it's unexpected and messy.

Sonoya Mizuno

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

Sonoya Mizuno

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

Sonoya Mizuno

The thing about being a dancer-turned-actor is that you know what hard work is.

Sonoya Mizuno

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

Sonoya Mizuno

In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it's still luck of the draw.

Sonoya Mizuno