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" Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring. "

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" I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them. "

Zooey Deschanel

People

Tone

Think

" 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. "

" Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other. "

" I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV. "

Zooey Deschanel

Out

Talking

" In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type. "

" Humor is a part of spirituality. "

" 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. "

" I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. "

" If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real. "

" Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling. "

Zooey Deschanel

Alone

People

" 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. "

" I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it. "

Zooey Deschanel

Myself

Now

" 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. "

" One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. "

" I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird. "

" My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' "

" 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. "

" I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously. "

" I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. "

Zooey Deschanel

Songwriting

Empathy

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

Zooey Deschanel

Be Nice

Nice

" My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. "

" I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.' "

" I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. "

" 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. "

" I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. "

" You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. "

" I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice. "

" From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over. "