Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it’s like I try so hard and then people still say I’m offbeat. I’ve learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
More Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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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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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 like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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It’s nice that there are movies and songs about romance – it’s what motivates us as human beings. I’m all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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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.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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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.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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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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It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
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I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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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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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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