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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELWell, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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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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You can’t know if someone’s really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I’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 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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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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I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There’s never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me
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When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?
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I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.
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I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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