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. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to be done. I sometimes go days without responding to texts or reading books or being able to process much of anything beyond the sun slowly creeping through my living room windows. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I’m afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn’t have many ambitions beyond starting a family ‘at a good time’ in life. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
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. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
At home in my room, I’m funny, but if I’m commissioned to be that, I don’t feel very funny. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
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. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let’s tell their stories, too. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that’s what I deal with when I am alone. Zazie Beetz Read Quote
