Maya Hawke Quotes

Maya Hawke

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 8, 1998

The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience.

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In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

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I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

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When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

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What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

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I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

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I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

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Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.

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When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.

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There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.

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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

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I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

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I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality.

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I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.

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I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

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I'm a real nature girl, and I love the Earth.

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I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

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