Maya Hawke Quotes

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

My mother has brought me up in a manner that has allowed me to retain my values, ideologies, and philosophies. I was let loose, just enough to develop an individual personality.

A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I'm still very much Kate.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.