Quotes by Maika Monroe - Page 2

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 / Film Actress
Agreed
Dad Me Wait
Boarding
Finally
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Fall
Taught
Love Time Movies
Extra
Making Movies
Same Time
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Agents
Anyway
Audition
Compete
Sending
Tapes
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Loud
Over The Top
Wanna
Horror Movies
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Chairs
Dirt
Plastic
Houses
Invite
Los
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Submissive
Drawn
Females
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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.'
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Ocean
Jaws
Telling
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Fingers
Hiding
Nightmare
Terrified
Horror Movies
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Air
Insane
Massive
South Africa
Windy
Africa
Cape
Coolest
Incredible
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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 / Film Actress
Athlete
Labor
Labor Day
Balancing
Boarding
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Free Time
Coolest
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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 / Film Actress
Film
Want
World
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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 / Film Actress
Time Money World
Indie
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Best Believe Your
Be Strong
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
No Idea
Coloring
Huge Part
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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.'
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Effects
Green
Special Effects
Filming
Dressed
Follows
Pulled
Suit
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Damn
Terrified
Absolutely
Love Movies Fun
Physically
Mentally
Horror Movie
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Cheerleader
Dumb
Intrigue
Great Movie
No Interest
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Thank You
Grounded
Unhealthy
Good Look Me
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Sharks
God Best People
Injuries
Oh My God
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Calmness
Loud
Transformation
Walks
Dan
Guest
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Mentality
Anyone Else
Work Yourself Me
Work Me Yourself
Work Hard
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Cooking
Vegetables
Chop
Terrify
Weird Thing
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Classic
Signing
Throwback
Follows
Horror Movies
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Lap
Myself Day Doing
Classes
Dance Classes
Production Company
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Cracked
Shallow
Trick
Injuries
Missed
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
All Time
Blast
Tarantino
Love Work People
Favorite Films
Quentin Tarantino
So Many People
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Boot Camp
Normal Life
Wave
Boot
Camp
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Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Activity
Auditions
Determined
Thick
Thick Skin
Training
Skin
Circuit
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My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
James
Vividly
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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.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Athlete
Beach
Brilliant
Rely
Training
Dream It
Myself Me Perfect
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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.'
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Cancer
Grandma
Perspective
Cause
Family Experience Me
Passed
Weirdest
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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 / Film Actress
Instant
No Idea
Wrong Way
Trick
Trained
Variations
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I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Guest,' I was hating everything about it, but the first time, I loved it. The first time you watch it, you watch it as a whole. And the second time, I think you can learn a lot. By the third time, you are just picking everything apart.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Twice
Guest
Hating
Picking
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Both Sides
Champagne
Chicago
Dominican Republic
Flying
Jet
Republic
Restaurants
Shock
Sides
Hang
Zac Efron
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
Maika Monroe / Film Actress
Closely
Forth
Huge Part
Indie
Switch
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