Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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I was always performing for people.
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And so I just used that time to see as many movies as possible, to try to educate myself.
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He's great! He's a funny man. He's so nice, and actually he's totally unaware of his celebrity, which is funny.
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I believed in Santa Claus until I was like 14.
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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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Sometimes I like singing more than acting. It depends.
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I don't want to be a babe. I don't want vanity to ever get in the way, because I think to maintain that, you have to be aware of yourself all the time, and that gets in the way of acting. My job's not to be the beautiful person. My job is to be the best actor I can be.
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It's kind of cool, I think, to be working with somebody when they start out.
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I'd only had one thing that'd come out, and name recognition means a lot in the film industry, as we all know.
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As an actor you want time at home, what amounts to half a year of working and half a year at home.
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For a while I was like, Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever, but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.
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I'm blessed with a lot of energy and stamina. I can't stand sitting still. I went to a spa once with my mom and I was like, Get me out of here!'.
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I don't know about royalty. Maybe aristocracy. But I do love LA. There are certain aspects that are cheesy. You know, plastic surgery, fake blondes. But they're easily avoidable.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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I can do the Chipmunk voice and impressions of Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds and Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965). I could probably do the whole Von Trapp family.
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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.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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I usually choose movies for the characters.
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I don't want to go to another rollercoaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmore (1998)s and the Being John Malkovich (1999)s. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
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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'm a big Jerry Lewis fan, you know.
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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.
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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.
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Old Gucci shoes that I still wear all the time. But, I forgot to pack floss – darn
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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.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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By the end of the year I'll have done three movies. That's pretty good. That's more than half the year.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They give me advice all the time. At first it was like, 'So now you've decided to be an actress, and I'm gonna give you this piece of advice.' But I don't have any tales; it's always sort of a collection of advice. It doesn't have any rules of thumb. They've encouraged my sister [Emily] and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it,' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would love to do a musical. That would be fantastic.
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I liked the attention being on me.
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My music taste is mostly stuff before 1975. 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 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.
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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.
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People say: Oh yeah, jobs for the boys. I wish. You've got to fight even harder with a family like mine.
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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.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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I decided at a certain point not to see any of my movies without an audience.
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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.
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I learned to sing when I was very small but I've been taking voice lessons since I was 11.
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I started out doing theater, and I did a lot of school plays, theater summer camp, and all that.
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Well, I have a cabaret act that I've been doing for years.
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And then I got some things, and I got more things, and people started giving me jobs... and, you know... it's good.
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I would say that I enjoy it very much and I always enjoyed English comedies and things.
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I absolutely get the jokes but I wish I were as clever as, you know, Bill Nighy or someone.
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I don't know what my greatest fear is. It's hard to say. I mean there's a lot of things out there that you say 'Oh God that'd be awful!' And somebody says that or something else. I'd have to agree that'd be awful. I don't think I have a greatest fear per se. There are definitely certain things that could create anxiety in me, if you wanted to. If you just felt like making me anxious, you could say all kinds of different things. What would make most people anxious? No, I try to not be too anxious because then you destroy the life that you have.
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I don't know if I would say that my sense of humour would necessarily be British sense of humour.
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I was labeled a 'theatre type' in high school, which made it hard to fit in and feel part of things.
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I don't really like to go out very much. I'm not scandalous. I'm not, like, in this to be famous. I also find it so embarrassing when you read about people and it's like they were so trashed at Skybar and stumbling around. I don't want to be that person. That's just so embarrassing to have that written about you.
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I didn't think much about elves because I was trying to think about the man in charge, the one that was going to bring me presents. I believed in Santa Claus until I was like 14. I believed I'm more likely to get better presents no matter if there's a Santa Claus or not, if I say I believe in Santa Claus. Then if my parents think I do, then they'll give me two sets of presents. Then if Santa Claus really does exist, then he'll appreciate my support.
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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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You don't want to work in a dirty space.
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I'm more of a classic thriller/Hitchcock kind of gal myself. I don't watch a lot of new horror films, but I like The Ring. I haven't seen a horror movie since that. I'm not a genre-oriented person, I'm not like 'Oh I'm into this genre or that genre'. I like anything as long as it's well made and the acting's good and has an interesting thing it's saying, then I'm interested.
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I love old music, old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, Damn, they stole my thing. I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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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.
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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.
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I was the kid who took every dance class, but I wasn't a serious dancer.
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You have to keep reminding yourself it's not about money, because there is a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do whatever. But that's not what I'm thinking about. I continue only to take movies because I love the script and because I really want to do it.
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Yeah, and I got to mess with people. Which is the fun part about being an actor.
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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.
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I think Will Ferrell is a great talent and I thought it would be fun to work with him.
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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.
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