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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.

Zooey Deschanel

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.
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Girl Healthy Littles
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.
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Nice Video Way
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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Crazy Movies People
I’m not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
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Comedy Moment Want
My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
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Compliment Ears Mom
O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you’re my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
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Habits Heart Life Old
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
I don’t like to plan harmonies too much, because there’s something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.
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Fun Layers Much Too
I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
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Believe Kings Successful
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.
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Female Girl Guy Mean
I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.
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Blah Boring People
When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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Class Kids Wonderful
I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Control Screens Terrifying
I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
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Children Dream Girl

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