You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made. – Sarah Gadon
I think everyone’s had that moment where you’re sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time. – Sarah Gadon
I’m really into acquiring film paraphernalia – that’s my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels. – Sarah Gadon
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. – Sarah Gadon
Since ‘A Dangerous Method,’ I’ve had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of ‘Drive.’ And they all have the same thing in common; they say: ‘Wow you worked with Cronenberg.’ He gave me instant film cred. – Sarah Gadon
I’m a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I’m certainly not the first person to be working while I’m in university. – Sarah Gadon
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. – Sarah Gadon
If you’ve ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it’s about the resilience of love and how much you’re willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person. – Sarah Gadon
It’s tempting to think, ‘This is silly. I’m an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don’t care about what kind of dress I wear… That’s so secondary to me.’ But if you care about your work… then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work. – Sarah Gadon
Should 50 per cent of Telefilm’s projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so. – Sarah Gadon
Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you’re working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me. – Sarah Gadon
I do build my own backstory as an actor. It’s important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they’re going – in order to exist in that state of being. – Sarah Gadon
I have these surreal moments where I’m like, ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work. – Sarah Gadon
This might be really weird, but The Body Shop has a tea tree oil stick that you can put on zits, and it makes your zits go away. – Sarah Gadon
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. – Sarah Gadon
I’m trying to be a working actor. I’m not in pursuit of fame. I’m not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that. – Sarah Gadon