I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.
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O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you’re my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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I think good actors tend to be really funny.
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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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I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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I don’t think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we’re talking about movies or TV.
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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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If you can make a character likable that’s not very nice, that’s the challenge of the job.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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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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I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it’s at and where a lot of trends begin. It’s where new filmmakers are breaking through.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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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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That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can’t think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we’re trying to fight against. I
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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