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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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Brown
Hair
Bangs
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" I hate camping, but I love summer camp. "
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" I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint. "
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Appreciate
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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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Brand
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" I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. "
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Christmas
Love
Singing
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Change
Growing Up
People
" 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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Appreciate
" I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends. "
Zooey Deschanel
Friends
Go
Guy
" I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. "
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Like
Songwriting
Empathy
" I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me. "
Zooey Deschanel
Feeling
Tired
Movies
" Nothing's better than a picnic. "
Zooey Deschanel
Picnic
Better
Nothing
" 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
Romantic
I Am
Good
" I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor. "
Zooey Deschanel
Always
Say
People
" I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. "
Zooey Deschanel
Work
Think
Say
" Everyone romanticizes somebody. "
Zooey Deschanel
Somebody
Everyone
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Last
Always
Know
" I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy. "
Zooey Deschanel
People
Feel
Know
" I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. "
Zooey Deschanel
Think
People
I Think
" Humor is a part of spirituality. "
Zooey Deschanel
Spirituality
Humor
Part
" I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. "
Zooey Deschanel
Standards
Jazz
Knowledge
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Star
Say
Proud
" Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys. "
Zooey Deschanel
Balance
Think
Lot
" I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. "
Zooey Deschanel
Person
Like
Being
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Best
Reality
Funny
" My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. "
Zooey Deschanel
Always
Babysitting
Sister
" I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think. "
Zooey Deschanel
Trying
Myself
Challenge
" If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans. "
Zooey Deschanel
Fans
Trying
Want
" Nothing could be as hard as middle school. "
Zooey Deschanel
School
Hard
Middle School
" There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor. "
Zooey Deschanel
You
Talk
She
" 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?' "
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You
Laugh
Me
" 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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