Always have a backup plan.
MILA KUNISAlways have a backup plan.
MILA KUNISI’d rather be in love and have a baby than have a movie.
MILA KUNISWhatever will happen will happen.
MILA KUNISI went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.
MILA KUNISI have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I’m uncomfortable and I don’t really know why but it just comes out and it’s come out since I was a child.
MILA KUNISI decided to do a comedy. It’s a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.
MILA KUNISWomen get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people’s criticisms of my film choices.
MILA KUNISWhen it’s a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it’s all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.
MILA KUNISI really, truly believe in learning from other people’s mistakes.
MILA KUNISI started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that’s not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.
MILA KUNISPeople strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it’s impossible because it’s a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they’re unattractive.
MILA KUNISI mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen [in Oz the Great]. I didn’t have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there.
MILA KUNISI am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.
MILA KUNISI commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it’s beautiful. I’m just not that person.
MILA KUNISI didn’t get the Russian Jew part because they didn’t think I looked Russian or Jewish enough – and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish – so I was cast as the racist Mexican.
MILA KUNISYou can handle anything.
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