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All Quotes by author - Zoe Kravitz
" Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. "
Art
Important
Love
" Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful. "
Beautiful
Beauty
Love
" Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out. "
People
Fame
Kind
" For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor. "
Me
Black
Connected
" From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. "
High School
School
People
" Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out. "
Cool
High School
Sad
" I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual. "
T-Shirt
I Am
Girl
" I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do. "
Love
Done
Want
" I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works. "
Acting
Music
Me
" I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot. "
Live
Cool
Wander
" I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple. "
Beauty
Kind
Oil
" I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.' "
Best
Best Friend
Friend
" I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that. "
Perfume
You
Want
" I feel like most creative people are total freaks. "
People
Like
Feel
" I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies! "
Beyond
Before
Butterflies
" I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school. "
High School
Time
Eating
" I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young. "
Black
Culture
Hip-Hop
" I learned early on - I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion. "
Opinion
Early
Idiot
" I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it. "
Good
Desire
Feel Good
" I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments. "
Car
Cool
Shoes
" I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot. "
Cool
Live
Wander
" I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.' "
Look
You
Me
" I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York. "
London
Time
New York
" I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York. "
Shopping
Walk
Love
" I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day. "
Old
Vintage
Big
" I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. "
New
Paid
Yorker
" I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting. "
Freak
Things
Outcast
" I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure. "
Watch
Sit
Just
" I'm not a very organized person. "
Organized
Person
Very
" I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy. "
Crazy
Place
Much
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