Zooey Deschanel quotes - page 7

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic. (Zooey Deschanel)
I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
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In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.
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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 think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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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. (Zooey Deschanel)
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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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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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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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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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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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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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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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. (Zooey Deschanel)
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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