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

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Zoe Kazan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 9
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Stage Actor
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Zoe Swicord Kazan
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to be a playwright.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.
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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.
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