In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it’s still luck of the draw. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the ’70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
The thing about being a dancer-turned-actor is that you know what hard work is. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things with an eye towards perfection. But in acting, it isn’t always necessarily good to be like that – really magical things can happen when it’s unexpected and messy. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
I’m one of six and would be lost without my siblings. We’re really close. They always understand what I’m going through. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
For most of my childhood, I grew up in the countryside of England, where it was very suburban – there weren’t a lot of people who were multicultural like my family. It was a place where the blonde and brunette girls in school were considered gorgeous. And because of that, I remember feeling like I wasn’t good enough. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote
I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because I had an uncle who was an actor. I wanted to do everything he did, and he told me to learn how to dance first. So then I learned how to dance. Sonoya Mizuno Read Quote