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" No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. "

Zooey Deschanel

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" I hate camping, but I love summer camp. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. "

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" I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. "

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" Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe. "

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" 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. "

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" I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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