Maika Quotes & Sayings

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so. — Maika Monroe

As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience. — Peter Davenport

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'. — Lesley Hazleton

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. — Dixie Lee Ray

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. — Maika Monroe

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

Minerva McGonagall is many things: gifted witch, stern Hogwarts professor, lifelong Quidditch enthusiast and occasional tabby cat. If there's one thing she's not, it's an open book. There's really no better way to get to know someone than hearing about their parents, their childhood, their first love, and their stubbornly held grudges. — J.K. Rowling

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer. — Abraham Verghese

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

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

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it. — Barack Obama

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. — Tim Crouch

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. — Maika Monroe

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. — Stephen Hopkins

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. — Terence McKenna

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want. — Maika Monroe

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up. — Maika Monroe

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! — Maika Monroe

Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?' — Chelsea Handler

I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous. — Maika Monroe

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have. — Maika Monroe

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded. — Maika Monroe

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it. — George H. W. Bush

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace. — Cornell Capa