My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I’m the same person.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
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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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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.
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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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I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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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.
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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 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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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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