I’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
ZOOEY DESCHANELYou 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 don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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In making a record there are so fewer people involved – at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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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 like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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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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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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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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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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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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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 feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
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