Maika Monroe Quotes
For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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My first vocation was dance.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
