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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.
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I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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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’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
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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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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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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I’m not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
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It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I’ve been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record (“I Thought I Saw Your Face”) is about eight years old.
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I’m the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I’m really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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