Zoe Kazan

I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty.

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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…

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and…

— Zoe Kazan

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to…

— Zoe Kazan

I just went through my childhood attic with my sister. I'm not an expert, and I don't mean to put myself in…

— Zoe Kazan

I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird…

— Zoe Kazan

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too…

— Zoe Kazan

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages…

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I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative…

— Zoe Kazan

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part…

— Zoe Kazan

I feel lucky to receive such critical attention and praise when you're in a show that's going to last a month, it's…

— Zoe Kazan

I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall.…

— Zoe Kazan

When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into…

— Zoe Kazan

That moment in 'Broadcast News' where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room,…

— Zoe Kazan

It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And…

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Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not…

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The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert…

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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…

— Zoe Kazan

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so…

— Zoe Kazan

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes,…

— Zoe Kazan

Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.

— Zoe Kazan

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Zoe Kazan

I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of…

— Zoe Kazan