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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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
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Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
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American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
