Zendaya: "I just like to have fun."

Zendaya: "Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything."

Zendaya: "I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me."

Zendaya: "I've always been transparent in who I am as a person."

Zendaya: "If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself."

Zendaya: "If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want. You can't grow and gain confidence from wearing the same thing every day. You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things. Just try. Try to try."

Zendaya: "I just wanted it to be me."

Zendaya: "I've done so much stuff and it's all so different."

Zendaya: “It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.”

Zendaya: "I love simplicity."

Zendaya: "I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool."

Zendaya: "Determination. No matter what field you're in, determination will surely get you to the top."

Zendaya: "I love to entertain and make people laugh."

Zendaya: "I like playing with fashion and bending the 'rules,' or what was 'rules' - there are no rules anymore, you know? Fashion is way bigger than that and it's about wearing what you want and wearing what makes you feel comfortable and what makes you feel confident."

Zendaya: "I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like."

Zendaya: "You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things."

Zendaya: "I've always dressed myself, even when I was younger. My parents didn't pick out my clothes or anything. They let me do that, which I think is an important thing because it allows for kids to experiment and figure out what they like, even at a young age."

Zendaya: "Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different... Just try hard to be you."

Zendaya: "The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?"

Zendaya: "Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there."

Zendaya: "There is no such thing as ugly."

Zendaya: "Our existence is broad and expansive and beautiful, and to see all the different emotional colours of what it means to be a young Black girl..."

Zendaya: "Find something that makes you happy and go for it."

Zendaya: "Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore."

Zendaya: "You don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age. It’s possible."

Zendaya: "If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent."

[On the multitude of recent job offers she has gotten that didn't pique her interest]

Zendaya: "I just felt like a lot of the roles that I was reading, specifically female roles, we're just like, I could have played them all as the same person and it wouldn't have mattered, if that makes sense."

Zendaya: "I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'"

Zendaya: "Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do."

Zendaya: "There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing."

Zendaya: "Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are."

Zendaya: "I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process."

Zendaya: "I love all types of braids. Single, multiple, box braids - I try them all."

Zendaya: "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."

Zendaya: "I love my fashion, so I gotta have my outfits."

Zendaya: "I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world."

Zendaya: "The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about."

Zendaya: "As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?"

Zendaya: "The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power."

Zendaya: “That’s something I deal with; I have anxiety. I already know after this interview is over, I’m going to spiral about it for weeks.”

Zendaya: "It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important."

Zendaya: "I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss."

Zendaya: "I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing."

Zendaya: “With my family and friends, I can go back and forth on a topic for no reason. I'm not actually winning anything here, but I like to go back and forth just to make sure that my point is heard, make sure my point has gotten across.”

Zendaya: "What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow."

Zendaya: "I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling. I would rather be known for the content of my character than for the project that I did."

Zendaya: "Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are."

Zendaya: "I want to reuse my clothes. I want to be able to wear that dress again when I’m 40 and be like, ‘This old thing?’ Really finding good vintage pieces that I want to invest my money in."

Zendaya: "I go to the real world, not the Internet."

Zendaya: “When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.”

Zendaya: "I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?"

Zendaya: "I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to 'Make America Great Again.' No, no, no."

[On painting during quarantine]

Zendaya: “If it’s not f*cking Picasso first time I do it, I’m upset about it.”

[On working on the show, Euphoria, with Zendaya]

Levinson: "It's about the work and how to make the work better. She's also not myopic or unaware, and I think we share a similar degree of self-criticism, where we look at the work we've done and we discuss in brutal, painful fucking detail what we could have done better. I feel like that's the key to longevity and growth as an artist: to keep learning, keep searching, and keep trying to do better."