Maika Monroe Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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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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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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It's sort of my job to feel good.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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'The Shining' scares me so much.
