Maika Monroe Quotes

I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

I used to do small roles in Western films.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

People really don't understand what actors do.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.