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

Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.

Zazie Beetz

I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.

Zazie Beetz

Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.

Zazie Beetz

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

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

Zazie Beetz

For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.

Zazie Beetz

I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!

Zazie Beetz

In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal.

Zazie Beetz

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

I'm pretty picky about my hair, so I end up always styling it myself.

Zazie Beetz

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

Zazie Beetz

I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don't like to think about that. But I love the food.

Zazie Beetz

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

Zazie Beetz

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

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

Zazie Beetz

My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, 'Oh, you look like chocolate - I want to eat you up!'

Zazie Beetz

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

Zazie Beetz

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

Zazie Beetz

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

At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.

Zazie Beetz