Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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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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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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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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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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I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.