Maya Hawke

Professions :

Actress

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.

good you darkness world

In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.

guitar family girl together

I'm a real nature girl, and I love the Earth.

girl nature earth love

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

true experience beauty people

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.

you disability confidence learning

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.

you learning together beautiful

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

voyeur been always kind

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

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If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

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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.

cool women experience work

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

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The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.

celebrity me world art

I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

rich family love relationship

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.

you childhood choices doors

I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.

cats play fun school

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

day me struggle school

I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.

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It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

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I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training.

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I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.

strangers my-life life long

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