Maika Monroe Quotes
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
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I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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I had already been making music for my whole high school life, and '10 Day,' which took me a whole year to finish, was about working with a lot of different producers and learning all of the aspects about being a rapper, from shows to recording to studio etiquette to marketing.
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You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
