Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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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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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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I 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 did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.
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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 comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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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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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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I think penguins are cute.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.