92 Quotes by Maika Monroe

I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

'The Shining' scares me so much.

My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.

I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.