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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.
Zoe Kazan
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Zoe Kazan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 9
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Zoe Swicord Kazan
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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.
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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.
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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 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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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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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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I never wanted to be a playwright.
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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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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.
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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 don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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