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Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis (born April 1, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She made her film debut in Smashed, and later appeared in Breathe In, That Awkward Moment, The Martian, Blade Runner 2049, and The F Word, the last for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination.

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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

Beautiful, Body, Like, Radiantly, Thinking

I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

Being Me, Jamming, Matter, Mediocre, Thinking, Universe

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

College, Paris, Expectations, Discovered, Travel, Months

I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.

Ate, Career, Europe, My Way, Told, Way

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

Actresses, Epitome, Perform, Required, Type

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

Day, Destroyed, Falling In Love, Items, Shelves, Too Much

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

Ideas, People, Decision, Feels, Way, Challenge

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

Class, Dream, Invite, Survive, White, World

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

Strong, Destiny, Thinking, Women, Lucky

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

School, Mean, Games, Acting, Game

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.

Character, Criticism, Sometimes, Younger, Dig, Work

I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L. A.

Jobs, Nice, Long, Working, Set

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

Computer, Our Relationship, Our Lives, Lives, Sexual, Huge

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

Coats, Fur, Hell, Stuff, Top, Wear

You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.

Beautiful, Character, Fascinating, Girlfriend, Understand, Wacky

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

People, Way, Moved, Sort, Relationships

I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.

Games, Play, Personality, Super, Engage, Stuff

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Canada, Devoted, Holiday, Love Thanksgiving, Warms

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

Accident, Purses, Shopping, Talk, Thrifting, Way

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie. "

Friend, Good Friend, Guy, Movie, Said, Thinking

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