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.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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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 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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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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There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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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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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I think good actors tend to be really funny.
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I feel like I can’t fully understand what’s happening now until I really understand what’s happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you’re trying to study so many years’ worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
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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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