American - Actress | January 17, 1980 -
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.
Zooey Deschanel
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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 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 accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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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 started out doing musicals.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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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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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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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 can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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