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" 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. "

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" I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person. "

Zooey Deschanel

Awareness

Same

Face

" I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. "

" If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!' "

" I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything. "

" A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. "

" When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work. "

" I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date. "

" I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. "

" I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices. "

" I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy. "

Zooey Deschanel

People

Thoughts

" The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.' "

" There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming. "

" The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it. "

" I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. "

" I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things. "

" Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. "

" I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative. "

Zooey Deschanel

" It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. "

" The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. "

Zooey Deschanel

Writing

Down

" I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me. "

Zooey Deschanel

Chance

Funny

" I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. "