It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
ZOOEY DESCHANELI 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’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.
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That’s one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It’s a moment in time, and the less it’s messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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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’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
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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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Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I’m a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
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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 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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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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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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It’s never too late for a coffee. After all it’s morning somewhere in the world.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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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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There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.
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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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There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.
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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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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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I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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There’s nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy – that you can’t really compare it with anything else.
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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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