I was up late decorating the Christmas tree at Mum’s house. Mum has this horrible Christmas album with Mariah Carey and George Michael singing carols, but we play it because we think it’s hilarious. If anyone walked in on us, they’d think we were lamest family you have ever met, but it was nice. —Emily Browning on the night before her Vogue Australia interview

Even though she’s quite a tragic character, Florence has moments of being charming and funny. I’ve never read a script for a period film that I wanted to do because the girls are usually quite boring in them, but Florence is a little more ballsy than most women at that time were allowed to be. —Emily Browning on what attracted her to Summer in February

I play a Roman Senator who manages to wedge himself in between Kit Harington’s character and Emily Blunt’s character.  They are both in love, and I am the protagonist in that. —Kiefer Sutherland on his new film Pompeii staring Kit Harington and Emily Browning

If I had been doing auditions and getting nothing back, I would have stopped. I would have been like, obviously this is not what I am meant to do. But it was hard because I was getting praised and called back and called back again, and then it wouldn’t happen - and it was so frustrating. I made a deal with myself. I sent the [Sucker Punch audition] tape out and I said, ‘If this doesn’t work, I am done. I am just going to stop’ —Emily Browning

It was really cool and I never said anything to her. I felt a little weird because does she know that people were photoshoping her into those [Twilight manips]? She has been someone I’ve been a fan of for a long time. It’s always exiting to work with people you think are awesome and so that was cool. —Stephenie Meyer on working with Emily Browning in The Host.

It is my guilty pleasure and I spend a disgusting amount of money on clothes. I live a fairly simple life. I love food but I’m not extravagant with it. I live in a little terace house. I don’t drive, I ride a bicycle or catch public transport. It’s low-key - but I have a good 300 pairs of shoes. —Emily Browning

Women can be all of those things – sexy and vulnerable and sad and happy and tough and strong. And I think it’s cool to see that it’s not just like, ‘This girl is purely sexy and that’s what she is.’ That’s what objectifying a female is, so I love the fact that (the girls from Sucker Punch) can play all of those elements. —Emily Browning

I know there’s a danger that I will do Lemony and a sequel and then people will know me as Violet for the rest of my life. Kid actors often play the same character in every movie. They come to be seen as celebrities but not actresses and I dont want that to happen. It’s my goal to do lots of different roles so that I can show people that I’m someone who can act. —Emily Browning

I do know that I think if the higher powers hadn’t intervened as much and it had stayed Zack’s story, I think it would have been a better film. Maybe not necessarily any better received but I just think it was kind of a weird thing with studio people. I think it got muddled. I mean, it was understandable interference because they wanted to market it as a PG-13 film and originally the script was an R for sure. I don’t know, I feel like it got watered down a little bit but I haven’t seen Zack’s cut. I would be very interested to see that. —Emily Browning on Sucker Punch’s reception

I think so many times people are really concerned with playing loveable characters and ‘is the audience going to love me’ and I just don’t give a shit about that. I think you should play interesting characters that are real people. And a lot of time, people are awful. —Emily Browning

I’m determined to go to university at some point. Although, it’s likely I’ll be the 95 year-old woman asking the teacher to speak up at the front of the gender-studies class when I finally do. —Emily Browning

Someone asked me, why did you dress the girls like that? And I said, I didn’t dress them that way, you did. That’s what pop culture demands, not me. And that’s fun for me — I love that when confronted with the exact formula that they request, they get all freaked out by it, because they’re like, “wait a minute – he’s right. I do like this, and maybe that’s my fault. —Zack Snyder on Sucker Punch’s wardrobe (via minderase)

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season—like all the other seasons—is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them. —Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal (via simply-quotes)

I’m not good at faking another version of myself. I’m still trying to find my alter ego. Take this interview: I want to tell you about me, I want you to like me. I like to be liked, but that’s something I have to kill. It shouldn’t matter what people think of me. —Emily Browning