Maika Monroe Quotes

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I just like playing unique characters that I love.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.