And so I just used that time to see as many movies as possible, to try to educate myself.
And then I did a play with a theater company when I was seventeen, and then I got representation, and then I just started audition for stuff.
And then I got some things, and I got more things, and people started giving me jobs... and, you know... it's good.
As an actor you want time at home, what amounts to half a year of working and half a year at home.
Besides the physical appearances, I think Trillian is somebody who is supposed to be extremely intelligent, so it didn't make any sense for me to play her as this girl who is along for the ride.
By the end of the year I'll have done three movies. That's pretty good. That's more than half the year.
Early on, I saw almost all of Hitchcock's movies, and I didn't really understand them at the time, because I was only about 10.
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
I absolutely get the jokes but I wish I were as clever as, you know, Bill Nighy or someone.
I believed in Santa Claus until I was like 14.
I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
I decided at a certain point not to see any of my movies without an audience.
I don't know if I would say that my sense of humour would necessarily be British sense of humour.
I don't know that it's important, but it's nice to be a kid when you're a kid, you know? It's nice to pretend.
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.
I just find that, part of my attraction to it is I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
I just try my best to make the character the best I can and make it the most interesting and also entertaining and also true to the book that I can.
I learned to sing when I was very small but I've been taking voice lessons since I was 11.
I liked the attention being on me.
I love Christmas and I really got in to the spirit of it - early on in the year usually. Maybe June, July, perhaps May or April, I would begin to talk about what we would do on Christmas.
I started out doing musicals.
I started out doing theater, and I did a lot of school plays, theater summer camp, and all that.
I think Will Ferrell is a great talent and I thought it would be fun to work with him.
I usually choose movies for the characters.
I was always performing for people.
I was the kid who took every dance class, but I wasn't a serious dancer.
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
I would love to do a musical. That would be fantastic.
I would say that I enjoy it very much and I always enjoyed English comedies and things.
I'd only had one thing that'd come out, and name recognition means a lot in the film industry, as we all know.
I'm a big Jerry Lewis fan, you know.
I'm kind of a dramatic character anyway so it's not really relevant, but it's more something that I enjoy that I can't do myself because it's not my sensibility, it's not where I'm from.
I'm learning that it's important, because to play different characters you have to be able to show who they are in their physicality. That's why I think it's important for actors to do dance and voice training.
I'm writing a script with a friend. We'll write for a while and then procrastinate for long periods of time - play chess, play pool, have some coffee.
I've been very fortunate in that I've been able to learn a lot on all the movies that I've done, and I actually have worked with a lot of people who have been around for a long time, very well-respected actors, so this was no different in a way.
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
It seems like New York's a really Christmasy place. People walk down the street and they act like they don't care but I think deep down inside, New Yorkers really care about Christmas.
It's a dark comedy, and it's basically: I'm a girl that's in college and I go home for my grandfather's funeral and everybody in my family is kind of nuts, so I have to write a eulogy for my grandfather.
It's kind of cool, I think, to be working with somebody when they start out.
Most of the stuff that was just sort of on-the-spot improvised was the stuff where Will would come running in and say something, you know, so there was less chance of me going off because it was just on him and I was just far away.
My music taste is mostly stuff before 1975.
She's like Don Quixote, and she's never met anybody who's so purely innocent about falling in love. She's kind of like a big kid. I think she falls in love with his innocence and his sweetness and sincerity.
Sometimes I like singing more than acting. It depends.
Well, I have a cabaret act that I've been doing for years.
Yeah, and I got to mess with people. Which is the fun part about being an actor.
You don't want to work in a dirty space.
You have to have something to take the edge off, and as an actor there's either a lot of downtime or no downtime, and you have to stay used to being busy.
Zooey doesn't watch her own movies without an audience.
Zooey would love to star in a musical.
Zooey has said that sometimes she likes singing better than acting.
Zooey loves to listen to the singer Ella Fitzgerald.
Zooey played "Lady Larkin" in the TV production of Once Upon a Mattress where she also did her own singing.
Zooey uses Kerastase shampoo and silicone-based products.
Zooey uses MAC Brick lip liner.
Zooey's last name is pronounced "deh-sha-NELL".
Zooey likes to listen to Radiohead, The Foundations, Mary J. Blige, and Sigur R?s.
Zooey enjoys listening to classic rock.
Zooey enjoys to knit and crochet.
Zooey loves the film The 400 Blows
Zooey turned down a role in Bully for a role in Big Trouble.
Zooey previously dated Mickey Madden from the band Maroon 5.
Zooey has blue eyes.
Zooey appeared in The Offspring music video for "She's Got Issues".
Zooey is 5'6" in height.
Zooey has one sister, actress Emily Deschanel.
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