In making a movie, you’re part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don’t try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, ‘Well you’re never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don’t even try.’ I mean, I care about being pretty, but it’s not my most valued thing.
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I don’t know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, ‘I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.’ That’s a very good way to keep women down.
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Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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For those of you who thought you’d be forgotten, The friends you’ve made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go…
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters – ‘He does this, and she’s a really interesting character because she does this.’ I’m not like that at all. I’m not an actory actor.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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