Maika Monroe Quotes

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

Some people suggested that I should try something else. It was a lot of things, but nothing really stood out for me. Nothing felt right, and this job as an actor happened by coincidence.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

My film career was never planned.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.