101 Quotes by Zawe Ashton

Good writing shouldn’t be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots, and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester. I hang on to that.

The first film I ushered was Lynne Ramsay's 'Morvern Callar.' I started at 18. Best job in the world. Blockbusters, indie films, classic matinees.

I would like to have a baby.

Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there's so much tension in 'Betrayal,' so much holding of breath and emotion, I can't get too happy in my food choices or I can't get alert enough.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

A lobster roll and a few glasses of fizz and I'm happy.

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.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

If I'm wearing the wrong clothes I can't think. It sounds so weird but it just has to be the right fabrics and like the right feeling on my body.