Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists. Maya Hawke Read Quote
I’m not particularly interested in my phone. I’m interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it’s made people socially deficient. Maya Hawke Read Quote
I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don’t really know that you’re acting. They don’t know that this isn’t reality. Maya Hawke Read Quote
In the first two projects I’ve worked on professionally, I’ve been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It’s been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that. Maya Hawke Read Quote
When you’re growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it. Maya Hawke Read Quote
I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach. Maya Hawke Read Quote
I haven’t always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist. Maya Hawke Read Quote
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others. Maya Hawke Read Quote
You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it. Maya Hawke Read Quote