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.
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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It’s never too late for a coffee. After all it’s morning somewhere in the world.
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You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.
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I don’t think I’m very much like anyone else, really. I’m sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don’t see anybody else and go, “Damn, they stole my thing.” I’m me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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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’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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I don’t like to plan harmonies too much, because there’s something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.
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I’ve always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.
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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’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
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We are all made of air There’s stars in my eyes and there’s sun in my hair And I’m runnin’ away, it makes me feel better
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I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
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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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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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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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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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Making movies, you’re like an independent contractor – you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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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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It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
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We all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies.
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