Zendaya (Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman) Quotes

My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Like

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Decide

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
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  • She
  • Man

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Good
  • Dad

• It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

  

  Carey Mulligan
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  • God
  • Deep

• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

  Kate Reardon
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  • School
  • Resilience

• I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

  

  Nathan Hale
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  • Wish
  • Service

• 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

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
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  • Laugh

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
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  • Business

• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  

  Dane Cook
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• I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
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  • Sexuality

• My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Good
  • Me
  • Confidence

• If I'm talking about something current, a current issue or something political, it's because I was able to read it when I was on the plane getting to the gig... a lot of it happens when I'm on the road because when I'm home, you're just mom, and that's it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Home
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  • Mom

• I feel like I know I have enough friends who support me through those times. Like, I'll call a friend and be like, 'I really don't feel good about what I ate today,' and she'll be like, 'Dude, it's fine.'

  

  Camila Mendes
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  • She
  • Friends

• At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Player

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
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• My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

  

  Zendaya
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