Top 40 Maya Hawke Quotes

The thing about acting that’s unlike any other art form is that it’s collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won’t succeed if the lighting design doesn’t succeed or sets don’t succeed.

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

I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things.

I’ve become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it’s been a part of my life for so long.

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product – your job is to make a director’s vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

I’m very open-minded.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I’d learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

It’s really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that’s not true.

The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.

I’m not particularly interested in my phone. I’m interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it’s made people socially deficient.

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.

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.

My parents are actors, and I’m the oldest of my siblings – I have three younger sisters and a brother who’s my best friend. We’re a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We’re a rambunctious gang!

I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It’s not, ‘Do these pants fit?’ It’s ‘Can I do a split?’

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.

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.

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.

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.

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

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.

When I heard the BBC was making ‘Little Women,’ I rushed to audition.

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.

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

I’ve always been kind of a voyeur.

It can’t be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.

I’ve been sitting at the grown-ups’ table my whole life.

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.

Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that’s your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I’m trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I’m very proud to be connected with them.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth – not usually in that order – and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.

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.

I’m not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I’m proud of them! It’s very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it’s in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

It’s difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it’s difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I’ll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

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.

When you’re growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don’t offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green.

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.