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" I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood. "
Zooey Deschanel
Girl
Person
Healthy
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" 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?' "
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" 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. "
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" I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it. "
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Imagination
Body
Think
" I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do. "
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End
Better
Time
" I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies. "
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" Romantic comedies are usually about when love works. "
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About
Romantic Comedies
Love
" I started out doing musicals. "
Zooey Deschanel
Started
Musicals
Out
" I can't even remember the first time I started singing. "
Zooey Deschanel
Singing
Time
First Time
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Stars
Money
School
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Up
Growing Up
Beautiful
" 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
Me
Myself
Now
" I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things. "
Zooey Deschanel
Sometimes
Work
Late
" 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 like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. "
Zooey Deschanel
Vintage
Clothes
Gal
" 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
Feel
Top
Pop
" I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. "
Zooey Deschanel
Think
People
I Think
" Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure. "
Zooey Deschanel
Suits
Know
Understand
" If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job. "
Zooey Deschanel
Nice
You
Character
" Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call. "
Zooey Deschanel
Girl
Waiting
Will
" I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off. "
Zooey Deschanel
Off
Always
Doing
" The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!' "
Zooey Deschanel
Club
God
Jazz
" There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it! "
Zooey Deschanel
Hot
Cute
Vintage
" Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting. "
Zooey Deschanel
Made
People
Uniform
" Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. "
Zooey Deschanel
College
Funny
Great
" 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
Know
Hate
People
" The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. "
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Moment
Nobody
People
" I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. "
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Work
Music
Collaboration
" 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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Men
Think
Together
" True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves. "
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True Love
Believe
Long
" I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear. "
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