I don’t think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we’re talking about movies or TV.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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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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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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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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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 think I’d say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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I can’t go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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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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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 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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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 have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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