I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
ZOOEY DESCHANELThere are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters – ‘He does this, and she’s a really interesting character because she does this.’ I’m not like that at all. I’m not an actory actor.
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I think comedy’s just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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We all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies.
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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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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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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’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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I 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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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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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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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars’ kids at my school – but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn’t cool to show off that you had money.
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I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
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It’s very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don’t mean to say it’s very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that’s my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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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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