I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

Meaning of the quote

This quote is about a young actress named Marguerite Moreau. When she was in high school, her boyfriend at the time helped her get on a surfboard for the first time. This was likely a fun and memorable experience for her, as she now looks back on it fondly.

About Marguerite Moreau

Marguerite Moreau is an American actress known for her roles in films like Queen of the Damned, Wet Hot American Summer, and The Mighty Ducks series. She has also appeared on popular TV shows such as Smallville, Lost, and The O.C. Her diverse acting career has spanned both film and television over the past two decades.

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More quotes from Marguerite Moreau

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don’t give you love, you’ll go somewhere else to find it.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we’d be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I didn’t need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don’t get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn’t feel naked.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn’t very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

You definitely want to do the little films. They’re always going to be harder, but you don’t do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

It’s hard to make something collaboratively. That’s the challenge. Sometimes you’re successful.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I’m most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

Tough love – I’m kind of weary of that. I don’t think it’s so effective.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

We started out as far to the left as we could.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I’m doing my work in an environment that’s ultimately about dollars and cents.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

There’s an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren’t as important as we make them sometimes.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

High school, you don’t want to go back and do it over again.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I’m more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you’ve got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

You were up at 5 o’clock in the morning, and then you’d ride in a caravan, because we didn’t have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don’t have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

The big companies are like, It’s so good but we don’t know how to market it.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I like working in any medium. Who’s making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Marguerite Moreau

American actress

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it’s like a workbook of that time in my life.

Marguerite Moreau

American actress