Top 80 Maika Monroe Quotes

‘The Shining,’ ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ ‘Halloween.’ Those are the greats.

Signing up for ‘It Follows,’ I didn’t have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.

In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete’s dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone’s help – it’s perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

I’m a huge fan of the first ‘Independence Day.’ It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was… I loved it.

There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.

When I’m filming, it’s in the contract – ‘No kiteboarding’ – ha ha.

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

If you’ve got people around you that are like, ‘Oh, you’re so good,’ this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, ‘You look like a doofus.’ I’m like, ‘Thank you. Thank you for that.’ It keeps me grounded.

I think a superhero would be awesome to play.

What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

They have so many great horror movies made in the ’80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.

I’m working on a movie called ‘Labor Day’ with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I’m excited to see what happens.

I don’t look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don’t plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

There’s a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.

I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in ‘The Guest’ and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she’s loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn’t looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

Signing up for ‘It Follows,’ I didn’t have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn’t seem like a real job to me.

I’ve cracked my head open before; I’ve had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

When you look at the roles I’ve done and the roles coming up, they’re all strong. I guess I’m more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.

I’m an only child, and we’re a close family.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn’t looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

I’d love, love, love to do a comedy. I can’t imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

I love horror movies. It’s so fun being absolutely terrified. It’s damn hard to shoot, though. I didn’t realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.

I’d never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.

I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There’s something so fun about them.

It’s really cool to be able to do both. I get a chance to be in this film with these amazing actors, the coolest people ever, and I try to kiteboard as much in my free time as I can.

My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

There are a lot of times where, filming ‘It Follows,’ I’m fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I’m just like, ‘No. There’s no way this is going to be pulled off.’

‘The Shining’ scares me so much.

I’d really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There’s so many people that I’d love to work with, but there’s something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is ‘Kill Bill.’ Something along those lines would be such a blast.

I have a weird thing with knives. I don’t like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can’t be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

I don’t look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don’t plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

I’m lucky because I remember my dad showing me ‘Independence Day,’ and I loved it.

I’ve cracked my head open before; I’ve had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

To be honest, you don’t get the full picture when you read a script.

To this day, I haven’t seen ‘Jaws.’ Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, ‘See the movies that you want to, but I’m telling you, do not ever see Jaws.’

To this day, I haven’t seen ‘Jaws.’ Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, ‘See the movies that you want to, but I’m telling you, do not ever see Jaws.’

I’ve never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

I’ve seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I’m not scared.

For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It’s the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn’t interest me. Maybe it’ll be a good movie, but the character doesn’t intrigue me.

My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it’s in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It’s the weirdest thing, ’cause you’re like, ‘It will never happen to me,’ and when it does, it’s like, ‘OK, wow.’

Horror movies can be – I don’t wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared ‘cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I’m using.

I think ‘The Shining’ is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost – I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there’s not a right or wrong way. It’s so hard because it’s so out of your hands. I have no idea what’s going to happen!

You learn so much on set; I don’t know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you’re on set, working.

I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in ‘The Guest’ and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she’s loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I’ve watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.