I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
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Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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I’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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It’s never too late for a coffee. After all it’s morning somewhere in the world.
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I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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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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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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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 being feminine. I think it’s good to be feminine. We don’t need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.
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I’ve had experiences where I wasn’t allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I’ve found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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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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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 like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
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You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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