Maya Hawke Quotes

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.