Zoe Kazan Quotes

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• 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

  Real, Writing, People

  "‘Ruby Sparks’ Writer/Star Zoe Kazan On the Personal Nature of Her Screenwriting Debut and Letting the Muse Speak to Her". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. July 25, 2012.

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

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  Waiting, Sitting, Sitting Around Waiting

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• 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

  Stress, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Zoe Kazan

  Character, Thinking, Plot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Half

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Moving, Writing, Laughing

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Inspiration, Reading, Hero

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Actors, Responsible

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  New York, People, Cafes

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• 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

  Character, Talking, Stories

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• 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

  Thinking, Comment, Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Girl, Used, Lows

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 05, 2010.

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

  Zoe Kazan

  Feels, Ifs

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

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Actors, Cameras

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 05, 2010.

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• 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

  Quality, Too Much, Auditions

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Mom, Hero, Actors

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Intense, Periods, Wells

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Character, Judging

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

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  Soul, Acting, Want

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

  Zoe Kazan

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Self, Bored, Tendencies

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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

  Writing, Down And, Force

  "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15 2012.

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

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  People, Parent, Like Something

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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