96+ Zoe Kazan Quotes On Education, Friendship And Elia Kazan

Zoe Kazan is an American film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as The Savages, Revolutionary Road, and It's Complicated. She has also appeared in television series such as Bored to Death and Girls. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Zoe Kazan on love, life, education.

Top 10 Zoe Kazan Quotes

1. I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
2. I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
3. 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.
4. Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
5. And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Zoe Kazan Short Quotes

• I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty.
• What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.
• I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
• I never wanted to be a playwright.
• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
• If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
• If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
• I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
• It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.
• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Zoe Kazan Quotes About Love

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. — Zoe Kazan

I guess I always like being asked questions about influence or inspiration, like, "What are you reading? Who are your heroes? Is there any one person you want to shout out to now?" I really love paying it forward with love and attention, because that's what I like to read. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. — Zoe Kazan

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. — Zoe Kazan

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

Zoe Kazan Quotes About Life

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. I think that when you're close with a sibling, especially a sister, it's a relationship unlike any other. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

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! — Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan Famous Quotes And Sayings

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it. — Zoe Kazan

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else. — Zoe Kazan

I just don't care that much about how famous I am. I care a lot about our world, and whether our planet will survive. It seems really low-stakes how many Twitter followers I have, in the grand scheme of things. In 80 years, who will care? — Zoe Kazan

Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie. — Zoe Kazan

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

My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex. — Zoe Kazan

When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you can rewrite. But as an actor, unless you're watching playback, you really rely on the director to help you. — 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 just easier when audiences are more receptive. I've done two new shows this year, so I'm always excited to work on something a little older, traditional and structured. — Zoe Kazan

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate. — 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 but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten. — Zoe Kazan

I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it's also mine. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

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. — 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 that category, but thinking about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours, I was like, Here are my 10,000 hours! — Zoe Kazan

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. — 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 it. — 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 sexist. — Zoe Kazan

If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things. — Zoe Kazan

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology. — Zoe Kazan

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

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

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. — Zoe Kazan

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

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. — Zoe Kazan

I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

In a way, you normalize your own childhood to yourself, so I never thought about how much I wrote as a kid. So I was there, confronted with it - so many notebooks, so many tiny plays. Every week we put on a play. We had a big futon, so my sister and I would use the futon as our stage, and I wrote little skits and made her faint because I found it so funny. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me. — 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 read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures. — Zoe Kazan

Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

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'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head. — Zoe Kazan

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico. — 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 I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. 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. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set. — 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 in jail. — Zoe Kazan

When I would get close on a part but wouldn't get it, I would be like, "They made a mistake," which is not how I think about things now. I both admire it and I'm grateful for the modicum of health, knowledge, and humility that I have acquired over the last 10 or 15 years. — Zoe Kazan

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway. — Zoe Kazan

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general. — Zoe Kazan

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. — Zoe Kazan

There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively. — Zoe Kazan

I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important. — 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 think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices. — Zoe Kazan

I was 14, when I wanted to be an actor. My parents were basically like, "This is a very hard life, and you have to be really serious about it, and show us that you're serious about it. You can't drop out of school." They strongly encouraged me not to act professionally until I finished college, which I didn't. And I think they should have been horrified! It's a really hard life. I'd be really scared if I had a child who wanted to be an actor. — Zoe Kazan

I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else is going to have the right political thing to say. As a citizen, I feel an enormous need to respond, and immediately post-election, I felt like, What is my work worth? Should I quit what I'm doing and go work on the 2018 election now? How is what I'm putting into the world meaningful? — 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

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. — 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 Y," and it's too much of a quality. — Zoe Kazan

I don't feel like it's a time to be shy about raising my voice, and I don't think that the things I'm raising my voice about should be alienating. If it's alienating to a "fan base," then I'm not responsible for that. — Zoe Kazan

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." — Zoe Kazan

Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who just published a memoir about his family that's really wonderful. Paul fell in love with his book, and we optioned it ourselves, and he took a first pass at writing it. He asked me for notes, and then our note session devolved into an argument really quickly. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Zoe Kazan

There aren't a lot of movies being made about women, period. Most of the time, the roles that are available are the sidekick, the friend, the girlfriend or the wife, and they just aren't that interesting. — 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 it as an "artistic bug" because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate. — Zoe Kazan

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. — 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, you can talk to people. — Zoe Kazan

Most adults get to a point in their careers where they feel secure, where they have a body of work behind them that will ensure longevity, and for actors, it's just not like that. You're basically always a temp, going from job to job. — Zoe Kazan

When my sister decided that she wanted to act, I was so nervous for her. She's doing great, but I have a lot of friends at every level of success as an actor, and we all go through periods of time where they feel like their worth isn't within their own control. That's a horrible feeling for an adult to have. — 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. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something. — Zoe Kazan

There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing. — Zoe Kazan

You know, it only happens a handful of times in your career, where you walk out of an audition feeling like all the stars aligned, my preparation paid off, something magical happened in the room. I've gotten really lucky and I've gotten to work a lot, and I would say it's only happened, like, two or three times, where I've walked out and been like, This was the right thing and the right choice and they should just cast me. — 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 doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure. — Zoe Kazan

Life Lessons by Zoe Kazan

1. Zoe Kazan's work demonstrates the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create something unique and meaningful.
2. She also shows the power of collaboration and the value of working with others to create something special.
3. Finally, her work emphasizes the importance of being true to yourself and having the courage to pursue your passions and dreams.