Zea Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Natalie Zea

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

Natalie Zea

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I've actually done a lot of comedy.

Natalie Zea

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. He was the color of a hydrangea before it blooms, wilting like one too, every inch of him sunken and bruised.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#26. I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

Natalie Zea

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#31. 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

#32. one was afraid of the darkness itself. They were afraid of what was in it.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. turning men into dribbling, fumbling jackasses and controlling the world and shit." "Controlling

Laekan Zea Kemp

#41. 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

#42. Fear, they had come to realize, not machines, is the most powerful weapon there is.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

Natalie Zea