Mikaela Hoover Quotes

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.

I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

Having dinner with somebody you've looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, 'Wow. I'm having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.' That's intense.

I believe Gary Cole is one of the greats.

I like Kamal Haasan's daring choice of roles. When I was in school and college, I modelled myself on him. I was so much in awe of him.

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

I did a couple quick things with Nicole Kidman, and I really loved that. She was a really cool person to chat with and had a really lovely presence on set. I'm a big admirer of her work. It's amazing the volume of work she does.

Just to be a part of anything that Queen Latifah is involved in is an honor, because she's such an amazing person and an amazing actress.

Park Bo Young was like a teacher to me. Personally, we were good friends, but at the same time, I admired her acting and learned a lot from her.

When I step outside and think of the caliber of actors I've had the privilege of working with, it just blows my mind.

I would not dream of taking on Tobey Maguire. Plus, he's a talented and nice guy, and I have nothing but nice things to say about him.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

Don Cheadle is up there for me. I've met him; he's a cool little dude. I admire his work.