Top 35 Maya Hawke Quotes

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’m not super aware of what’s the coolest thing and what everybody’s doing or listening to or watching at any given time.

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’ve always been kind of a voyeur.

I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.

Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it.

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

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.

I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

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.

Style icons always change, and they usually inspire my haircuts more than anything else.

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.

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.

I’m very open-minded.

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

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

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.

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.

I’ve never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

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

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.

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.

I was Jenny in ‘Jenny and the School for Cats’ when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in ‘Oliver Twist,’ and that was the most fun I’ve ever had.

In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together – only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.

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.

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?’