Zazie Beetz Quotes

Zazie Beetz

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 1, 1991

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

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When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.

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At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.

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Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.

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I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day.

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I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

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It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.

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I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don't like to think about that. But I love the food.

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I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.

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I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!

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For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.

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I don't know how people say exercising is addictive.

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My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, 'Oh, you look like chocolate - I want to eat you up!'

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I wish I was a morning person.

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For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to be done. I sometimes go days without responding to texts or reading books or being able to process much of anything beyond the sun slowly creeping through my living room windows.

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I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

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I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

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Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it.

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I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

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Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.

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