Words matter. These are the best Zazie Beetz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.
The version of me on the Internet, it’s not me. It’s one portion.
I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don’t like to think about that. But I love the food.
I don’t know how people say exercising is addictive.
Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.
I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.
I used to cry on planes. I don’t anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.
When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.
I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.
I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that’s what I deal with when I am alone.
It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, ‘Don’t make me follow you. You’re not responding to me.’ It’s incredibly degrading.
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let’s tell their stories, too.
Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, ‘Um, am I black enough?’ – and I guess specifically, ‘Am I German enough?’ Why are we measuring blackness?
I’ve had acting teachers say, ‘If you want to do anything else but act, that means you’re not an actor,’ which I think is stupid!
It’s fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they’re moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.
I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.
I wish I was a morning person.
My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, ‘Oh, you look like chocolate – I want to eat you up!’
I’ve begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation’s war is climate change, so I’ve really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.
I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.
I actually didn’t think I was going to do TV because I don’t really watch TV. I’m a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself.