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Zawe Ashton Quotes
Zawe Ashton Quotes
Zawe Ashton
English
Actress
Born:
Jul 21
,
1984
About
Always
Me
People
Think
You
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
Zawe Ashton
Love
Science
Every
Medium
TV
I Love
Visual
Lighting
Sound
Working
Aspect
Film
Film And TV
If I was someone who wanted to do just love-interest roles then I'd be in a difficult position. But thankfully I'm someone who likes to do things that are edgy and different.
Zawe Ashton
Difficult
Someone
Likes
Edgy
Roles
Thankfully
Just
Different
Wanted
Then
Who
Things
Position
I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.
Zawe Ashton
Long
Out
Long Career
Having
Want
Burn
Plan
Career
If you're looking for reps, write letters that are short and professional. Make sure you have a really great reel of yourself. If there are friends you know who are making short films, do them - it's all material for your reel.
Zawe Ashton
Great
You
Yourself
Looking
Films
Write
Know
Make
Sure
Making
Material
Friends
Short
Short Films
Them
Really
Your
Who
Professional
Letters
I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.
Zawe Ashton
Work
Not Talking
About
Habit
Talking
Got
Really
Ever
Early
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.
Zawe Ashton
Life
Character
You
Ending
Television
Bizarre
Tells
About
No-One
How
Years
Five
Being
Episodic
Your
Dedicated
Painful
Anyone who's been an usher knows it's a training in resilience. But you get such a film education. And the popcorn's free.
Zawe Ashton
Education
You
Training
Free
Knows
Been
Get
Anyone
Popcorn
Usher
Film
Resilience
My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness.
Zawe Ashton
Life
Home
Memory
Real Life
Overwhelming
Excitement
Weird
Also
Real
Leaving
Going
Going Home
I like clothes that feel fresh and surprising.
Zawe Ashton
Clothes
Feel
Like
Fresh
Surprising
It has taken a long time for me to really dress as the artist that I am: I'm an indie girl, I like experimental, I like things to be subverted. Details are the fun part.
Zawe Ashton
Time
Me
I Am
Girl
Long
Long Time
Details
Dress
Indie
Part
Taken
Like
Am
Artist
Experimental
Really
Fun
Things
Tennessee Williams moves my soul.
Zawe Ashton
Soul
Williams
My Soul
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Moves
I hate when there's a band that you've loved and you go and see them and it's like only the really new experimental stuff from the current album.
Zawe Ashton
You
Hate
Band
See
Only
Stuff
New
Like
Go
Current
Experimental
Loved
Them
Really
Album
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I've known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it's just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.
Zawe Ashton
Sad
Day
Me
I Am
Calm
Become
Closed
Down
Other
Local
I See
Out
Tells
I Feel
Constantly
See
Feel
Nobody
Since
Crying
Known
Calm Down
Am
Times
Child
Trying
Shop
Going
Move
Closing
Just
Burst
Places
Much
Should
Dad
Pharmacy
Need
The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.
Zawe Ashton
Intelligence
Say
Admire
About
Something
Poetry
Feel
Always
How
Activism
Belief
Actor
Level
It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.
Zawe Ashton
Wonderful
Skin
Statements
About
Clear
Making
Brands
Being
Tones
Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.
Zawe Ashton
Life
Love
Character
Honestly
Television
About
Write
Essay
Serial
When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.
Zawe Ashton
Love
You
Experience
Fiber
Every
Get
Being
Different
Your
Things
My drama teacher when I was a kid called me ‘Zawe the activist' and I had no idea why. Now I've got older I can see why she always saw that in me.
Zawe Ashton
Teacher
Me
Older
Drama
Saw
Kid
I Can
See
No Idea
Had
Idea
She
Always
Got
Activist
Now
Why
I've never lived in north or west London, so I'd like to come out of my comfort zone for a bit. But Stoke Newington is where my heart is, it's where I'm born and bred.
Zawe Ashton
Heart
Bit
Out
London
Born
Never
Come
Like
Comfort
Comfort Zone
West
North
Stoke
Where
Bred
Lived
Zone
I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.
Zawe Ashton
Guidance
Extreme
Characters
Parental
Come
Always
Just
Them
Really
Play
I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.
Zawe Ashton
Funny
Entertainment
Women
Men
Feeling
Think
Society
I Think
Within
Still
Women Are
Than
Aside
Less
I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.
Zawe Ashton
Home
Me
Down
Else
Despite
Extreme
Find
Born
Ongoing
Call
Gets
Which
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Bred
Hard
Art galleries are the best first date spots for my money.
Zawe Ashton
Art
Best
Money
First
Date
Spots
Galleries
I hate talking about class, but the truth is as an actor you're only going to be doing some really great work if you can afford to be out of work and take the good stuff. If you can't, you're going to be treading quite a different path.
Zawe Ashton
Work
Truth
Good
Great
You
Class
Truth Is
Hate
Path
Out
Some
About
Only
Take
Stuff
Great Work
Talking
Doing
Afford
Going
Quite
Different
Really
Different Path
Actor
Treading
I'm not really sure what defines 'success in the real world' to be honest! It's so objective once you graduate, some people work, some people start families, some go looking for themselves up mountains in Peru.
Zawe Ashton
Success
Work
You
People
World
Some People
Looking
Mountains
To Be Honest
Once
Defines
Some
Objective
Sure
Real
Go
Up
Families
Graduate
The Real World
Real World
Themselves
Really
Peru
Start
Honest
A lobster roll and a few glasses of fizz and I'm happy.
Zawe Ashton
Happy
Glasses
Few
Lobster
Roll
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