Zooey Deschanel Quotes
If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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We don't curse at Shots Studios, and we send a very positive message.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
