Zendaya

You don’t have to be older to live your dreams, you can do it at any age.

You cannot allow other people’s opinions, comments, or decisions affect how you feel about yourself.

I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.

If you pretend to be a role, one day that role is going to break. You’re going to want to be yourself, and people are going to be really disappointed finding out you’re not who you’ve been living your life to be. Just keep it real and be yourself – that’s what people gravitate toward.

I’m a chocolate addict!

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…

It’s fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

I’m quite obviously not the world’s most handsome man – I’m the second world’s most handsome man!

In the middle of everything that I’ve done as a singer or as somebody who’s jumped on top of a few old books and turned ‘em into songs about hobbits f*cking vikings, I think I’ve danced a beautiful dance through it all, without becoming too much of a cliche. I’ve enjoyed the two-step. It’s brought me great gifts.

My grandfather was a farmer so I was always raised that you worked very hard whatever your job is; my sister was a teacher. You’re to be respected if you try hard and try to be good at something and the results are less important. You can’t control that. The more important thing is that you tried your best. But now there’s much more of an intention where some of these kids don’t want to be actors, they want to be famous! Their focus isn’t necessarily on craftsmanship.

The girly movie I secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.

When it’s not your gig, you’re like, ‘I’m just gonna go to bed!’

The trouble is now, with rock’n’roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

[on Amy Poehler] Not only is she not afraid to look silly, she’s not afraid to let you throw her in the air like a basketball and catch her.

I don’t know what would have happened to me if I hadn’t been able to hear.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

I haven’t had an interview in two years where I wasn’t asked about Bond!

I’m really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can’t go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I’m totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.