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" 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. "

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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. "

Maya Hawke

Talk

Think

You

" I have a wonderful, supportive relationship with my family. I get lots of advice from them about all kinds of things. "

" 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! "

" 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?' "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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've always been kind of a voyeur. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I changed my name, everyone would have just known that I changed my name. If I had been anonymous, it would have felt pretentious. It would seem like I'm trying to dodge something. I love my family and have such respect for their work, for their career and talents, and I'm very proud to be connected with them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience. "

Maya Hawke

Truth Is

Truth

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Style icons always change, and they usually inspire my haircuts more than anything else. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "