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When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

Maya Hawke

Relationship Art Age

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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.

Learning Your You

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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.

Success You Wit

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Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

Women Strength Men

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One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

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

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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.

Men Experience Want

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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Us Thinking Think

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My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.

Truth Family Wit

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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.

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I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.

Love Independence Freedom

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There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Family Uses Use

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Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

Happiness Way Vent

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I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

Ways Way Wanted

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The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.

Design Art Your

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Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

Time Yourself Yours

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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.

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I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

Graduation T School

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I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

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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.

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I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate... name it.

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.

My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!

It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.

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

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

When I heard the BBC was making 'Little Women,' I rushed to audition.

Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.

It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

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.

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.

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?'

I'm very open-minded.

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

I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green.