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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELNot that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
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I don’t know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, ‘I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.’ That’s a very good way to keep women down.
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Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.
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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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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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People sometimes say, ‘Oh, you were a movie star,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I was a supporting actress.’ I wasn’t an A-list actress, and I’m fine with that. I’m proud of what I did in film.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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There’s a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They’ve got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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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 LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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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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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There’s never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me
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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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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, ‘Oh my God!’
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But I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
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