Zazie Beetz Quotes

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.'

I never had any idea of going into movies.

Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

I actually never wanted to be a VJ. Never. It just so happened that I became a VJ, and I was actually kind of like, 'I don't want to be a VJ. I want to be in the movies.' So yeah, I always wanted to be an actor.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

Who wouldn't want to be involved in a movie?

I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.