"Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, Hey, can we shoot some stuff? or Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store? or Hey, can you... Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things"
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The subtext is pragmatic, not confessional. “Share my personality and who I am” sounds like authenticity, but it’s also brand maintenance: you stay knowable enough to stay relevant, without surrendering control. The camera becomes a social prosthetic, a way to translate private Zendaya into public Zendaya on her own terms, through chosen moments and chosen witnesses. Even the “platform” language is blunt about the trade: attention is capital, and the day-to-day is how you keep earning it.
Context matters: coming up as a Disney-era star and maturing into prestige projects, Zendaya understands that fame isn’t a byproduct anymore; it’s an infrastructure. She’s describing the labor behind “effortless” visibility, and the strategic pivot that follows: use the small, sticky content to bankroll “bigger, more important things.” It’s not selling out so much as learning the going rate for influence.
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Zendaya. (n.d.). Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, Hey, can we shoot some stuff? or Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store? or Hey, can you... Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-when-im-thinking-about-something-or-184679/
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Zendaya. "Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, Hey, can we shoot some stuff? or Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store? or Hey, can you... Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-when-im-thinking-about-something-or-184679/.
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"Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, Hey, can we shoot some stuff? or Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store? or Hey, can you... Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-when-im-thinking-about-something-or-184679/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.









