I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I’ve always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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But I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
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If you can make a character likable that’s not very nice, that’s the challenge of the job.
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I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
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I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she’s a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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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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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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There’s a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They’ve got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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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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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.
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To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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The internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.
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In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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I would watch ‘Wizard of Oz,’ like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn’t go into the film, because it felt so real to me.
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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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I’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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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.
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It’s never too late for a coffee. After all it’s morning somewhere in the world.
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I think good actors tend to be really funny.
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