Zoe Kravitz Quotes

My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

Zoe Kravitz

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• Mom
• Drama
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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Car
  • Door

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • She
  • Mom

• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Kitchen
  • Kid

• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Kind
  • Drama
  • Hero

• I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Mom
  • Wrong
  • Forgive

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• I learned Spanish in five or six months.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Spanish

• I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

  

  Bill Terry
  • Money
  • Baseball

• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Culture

• My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • House
  • Mom
  • Drama