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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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Zoe Kazan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 9
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Zoe Swicord Kazan
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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.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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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.
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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 never wanted to be a playwright.
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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.
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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?
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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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 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.
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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 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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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.
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