Emily Browning's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The thing is, I actually feel a lot more comfortable at school just bumming around with my friends than I do at Hollywood parties. But then, I guess you're just never happy with what you have.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

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.

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.

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.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

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.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

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

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 prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

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

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

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

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?'

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

'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.

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

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

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