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" I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long. "
Zooey Deschanel
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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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" For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. "
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" We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. "
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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 just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. "
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" Nothing's better than a picnic. "
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" 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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" Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money. "
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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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" Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles. "
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" I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. "
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