Zoe Kazan Quotes

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty.

I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.

I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I wouldn't normally seek out, and I think vice versa.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.

I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.