Zooey Deschanel Quotes - Page 8

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• I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

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  Fun, Character, Pages

  "Zooey Deschanel and Liz Meriwether NEW GIRL Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.

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  Roles, Made, Picky

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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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  Hair, Years, Bangs

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• I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Strong, Children, Sorry

  "Fictional character: Jess". "New Girl" (Season 1, Episode 11), 2011-2018.

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• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

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  Growing Up, Children, Singing

  "She & Him's Perfect Harmony". "Relevant" Interview, relevantmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

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  Summer, Hate, Camping

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• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

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  Beach, Boys, Beach Boys

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.

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  Cheer, Thinking, Talking

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• It`s not about women acting like man, it`s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

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  Men, Feminism, Acting

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

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  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• Love is just a piece of time
  in the world
  in the world
  And I couldn't help but fall in love again

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Falling In Love, Love Is

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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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  School, Singing, Acting

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• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

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  Song, Baby, Nice

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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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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  Stars, People, Proud

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• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

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  Thinking, People, Noses

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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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  People, Forever, Uniforms

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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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  Beautiful, Two, Piano

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

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  Song, Mean, Writing

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

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  Exercise, Class, Skills

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• When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

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  Endless Time, Hours, Stores

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

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  Beautiful, Growing Up, Pilates

  "Zooey Deschanel: Actresses are too skinny, it's scary". www.foxnews.com. January 3, 2013.

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• You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.

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  Home, Night, Shoes

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

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  Country, Speak English, Eight

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• I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

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  Feminist, Want, Peter

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• Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself

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  Worry, Be Kind, Wells

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