Zea Quotes & Sayings

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age. — Natalie Zea

I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff? — Natalie Zea

There are four people in my life, not counting my reps who know everything, two of whom are my parents, that know everything, so that when I feel like I need to let it out, I can talk to any of those four people. — Natalie Zea

I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess. — Natalie Zea

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.' — Natalie Zea

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it. — Natalie Zea

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads. — Natalie Zea

People weren't made for this kind of thing, he said, the way I feel about you, how much I feel, no one ever has or ever will even come close to it. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Fear, they had come to realize, not machines, is the most powerful weapon there is. — Laekan Zea Kemp

If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I'd end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers. — Laekan Zea Kemp

You know I'll be right there with you if you want to go to Germany. Or if you don't, I'll be right there too." "I know," I said. "You always are." "And I always will be." Hot tears pricked at my lashes. I blinked. Because she was wrong. Because she would get older and so would I. She wouldn't always be there. Whether I still needed her or not, she wouldn't always be there. — Laekan Zea Kemp

People don't exist in just the light or the dark. They exist in the contrast. In the shadows where the two overlap. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Every time Dani said his name I felt like she was tugging at a thread I wasn't ready to unravel yet. Or maybe that thread was me. "Can we not talk about him?" I said. "Like, ever again?" "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear you say that," she sighed. "So anyway, you think you're ready to join the rest of the world today?" I lowered my voice. "You think this prison sentence is self-imposed? My mom freaked out about how long I was asleep and now she's got me on lock down to keep me from — Laekan Zea Kemp

Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun. — Laekan Zea Kemp

The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I have some really, really good friends, to whom I'm very close, that I'm not revealing anything to, and that's really hard. — Natalie Zea

Dani's mild eating disorder was definitely the most annoying thing about her. One Christmas break I'd gained ten pounds and went up two cup-sizes - a post episode binge that finally made me look normal, like a woman. I would have killed to hold onto that version of me and all Dani did was count calories and complain about her non-existent cellulite. She was lucky. Most people were, they just couldn't see it. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her. — Laekan Zea Kemp

What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they bring onto the show. They're so talented, in such a weird, quirky and ominous way. And it's great to be able to work with new faces, too. — Natalie Zea

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough. — Natalie Zea

You're not going to disappear," I said. "I won't let you".
"Even if this is all there is? Going to school and working at my uncle's restaurant and fighting with Mari? Why would anyone want to remember this?"
"I want to remember you. Just like this."
She rolled onto her back, hands covering her face, and I pulled them away.
"People like you don't disappear," I said.
"Then where do they go?"
"Everywhere. — Laekan Zea Kemp

He was the color of a hydrangea before it blooms, wilting like one too, every inch of him sunken and bruised. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I've actually done a lot of comedy. — Natalie Zea

My lip trembled, my throat raw, and I started to cry. But not because I didn't look perfect. But because I looked healthy and because I wasn't sure how long I'd stay that way. — Laekan Zea Kemp

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious. — Natalie Zea

It's comfortable and not because he makes you happy - the guy's a total asshole - but because you already know what to expect. You already know how he'll hurt you. — Laekan Zea Kemp

This journal will stay hidden among the dusty coverless books lining my bookshelf until the day I need to be reminded of who I really am. Then I will come for it and maybe I will read it to my son or daughter and pretend it's just another fairytale, changing every dark moment to light, conquering every villain, and replacing the ending with the one I was robbed off. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire. — Natalie Zea

one was afraid of the darkness itself. They were afraid of what was in it. — Laekan Zea Kemp

You're still just waiting," she said. "And so is my mom. Who'd want a lifetime of waiting?" I stared at the soft lines of her lips. "Someone who knows what it is they're waiting for. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I'm at my best when I'm working. Breaks are not great for me. I get frustrated sometimes, if I have a long break and somebody says, "Oh, that must be nice!" — Natalie Zea

I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!' — Natalie Zea

Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed. — Laekan Zea Kemp

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it. — Natalie Zea

I'm drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It's human emotion. It's much more fun to watch. And it's much more fun to play. — Natalie Zea

The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, a giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn ...
Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical name it travels under, corn is what you will find. For modified or unmodified starch, for glucose syrup and maltodextrin, for crystalline fructose and ascorbic acid, for lecithin and dextrose, lactic acid and lysine, for maltose and HFCS, for MSG and polyols, for the caramel color and xanthan gum, read: corn ... There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well ...
And us? — Michael Pollan

turning men into dribbling, fumbling jackasses and controlling the world and shit." "Controlling — Laekan Zea Kemp

Because for every girl in the history of girls there is always that one guy she can't seem to shake. Even though she knows he's not just bad for her but probably the worst thing. — Laekan Zea Kemp

But maybe I could give myself something too - permission to keep trying. Even when it felt like it was all for nothing. Even if trying was all I ever did, I shouldn't stop. — Laekan Zea Kemp

Children are instinctually afraid of closets in the dark of night, a portent of evil lurking in the background of shadows. It isn't an irrational fear, for monsters come from closets. It's not something easily forgotten, or a fate yet known. As young adults, some of them venture into their closets, some come out. Sean danced with his. — Zea Miller

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great. — Natalie Zea

Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it. — Natalie Zea

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross. — Natalie Zea

I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs. — Natalie Zea

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop. — Natalie Zea

Diego thought about the night before, about the first breaths of morning chasing them from that old abandoned building, his arms twisted around her waist, finger's trembling against the soft skin of her hip as they stood within the ruins of a war Liliana would never understand. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy. — Natalie Zea

The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier. — Natalie Zea

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction. — Natalie Zea

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both. — Natalie Zea

I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked. — Natalie Zea

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on. — Natalie Zea

He had seen her glowing silhouette slip past his window and had watched her as she stood there, completely still, arms tangled in the breeze as if she were weightless, as if she wasn't even in her own body. When she'd stepped to the edge of the dock, that's when he started running. And then she jumped. — Laekan Zea Kemp

I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things. — Natalie Zea

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good. — Natalie Zea

I really am not a weakling. We like to do a lot of takes, so it ends up being pretty physically grueling. — Natalie Zea