Zosia Mamet Quotes

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones!

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

I am a private human.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.