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If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

Zooey Deschanel

I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Control Screens Terrifying
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
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.
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Creative Mean People
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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Every Magic Records Thinking Time
I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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Actors Roles Stories
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
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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Awareness Faces Girl
I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.
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Interesting Knowing Thinking
I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
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People Trouble Trying
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Feelings Tired Years
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!’
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Clubs Jobs Singing
I’ve always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.
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Needed Particularly Way Come
In making a record there are so fewer people involved – at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.
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People Records Three Trevally
If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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Cute Hate Puppy
I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I’m a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy
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Cry Littles Older Shy Strain

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