Mae Whitman Quotes

I don’t really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I’ve been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like ‘Pete and Pete,’ ‘Hey, Dude,’ ‘Salute Your Shorts’ – that’s what I grew up with.

Being a teenager is hard.

The actual, original ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce – it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

You can find the money, you’ll be okay, but the things that you choose to invest your energy in, that shapes your life and your path and where you go from there. I find that when I’m a part of things that I believe in and I love, it leads to more things like that.

I love doing voice-over. It’s one of my favorite things.

I don’t have one role that I’m particularly fond of doing, and I don’t really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it’s a role I connect with, I’ll go for it, no matter what’s involved.

My favorite book in life is ‘A Wrinkle In Time,’ which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

It’s funny, because I don’t have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can’t do anything else.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It’s something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age – when you are going through something like that – the genre is so meaningful.

Act because you love to act.