“I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the ...” — Zoe Kravitz Quote

“I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'”

“For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.”

“I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.”

“I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.”

“Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.”

“TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.”