101 Quotes by Zawe Ashton

Secondary school was a lot harder. That was probably my hardest time. Some of the girls were really nasty. I had to move schools because of the bullying there.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

In the future, the idea would be to create work for myself, as a way to work up into my 80s if nothing else. But also, I want to cast my friends in things or people I saw who weren't working and I'd be like, 'Why aren't you working, I don't understand - I'll write you a role in something.'

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.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

From the outside, some people might consider me a hipster!