Maika Monroe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
-
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.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
-
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.
-
I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
-
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
-
There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
-
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.'
-
Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
-
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.
-
I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
-
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
-
I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.
-
Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
-
My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
-
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
-
There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.
-
Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
