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Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel is an American actress, singer, and songwriter born on January 17, 1980, in Los Angeles. Known for her unique vintage style and quirky personality, she has appeared in films such as "Elf," "500 Days of Summer," "The New Guy," and "Yes Man." She gained critical acclaim for her role in "The Help," earning a Golden Globe nomination. Beyond acting, she co-founded the indie folk duo She & Him with musician M. Ward, showcasing her musical talents. Coming from a family in the entertainment industry, she has become one of Hollywood's most distinctive multi-hyphenate artists.

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“I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.”

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“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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“For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.”

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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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“Change is hard, I should know. I should know.”

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“Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for”

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“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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“There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all”

Kind Lying Painting Wall All Kinds Thieves

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“Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself”

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“California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone”

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“Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?”

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“I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me”

Want Heart Home Light Beautiful Morning Warning Want To See You

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“We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better”

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“For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.”

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“For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...”

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“I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...”

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“If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Eye Young Certain Girl Responsibility Deserve Look Up Public Eye

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“Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.”

Littles Bits Water Little Bit Coffee Sass

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“I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.”

I Can Ideas Facts Happens Film Knowing Old Music

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“I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.”

Feels Trying Years Littles I Can Bits Study Happened Little Bit Happenings Overwhelming

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“My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'”

Want My Sister Logos

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“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Littles Kids Laughing Months Six Six Months Little Kid Your Best Friend

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“There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.”

Joy Compare Great Friend

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“That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Mean I Can Facts Fighting Example Weakness

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“Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.”

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“I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.”

People Thinking Laughing Comedy Making People Laugh

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“One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.”

Knows Trying My Own Ability Television Performances Privilege Evaluate

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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!”

Knows Want Mean Important Sometimes Girl Fun Know How Exercise Discounts

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“Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.”

Thinking Persons Individual Love Is

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“I think good actors tend to be really funny.”

Thinking Actors Good Actors

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“I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.”

Bigs Stuff Fantasy Fans Grew Grew Up Genre 80s Clash Titans Bandits

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“I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Stories Situation Comedy Serving Being Funny

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“I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.”

Thinking Practicals Cynical

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“I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.”

Want Moments Comedy

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“I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.”

Writing Home Creative Aspect Really Great Great Times Writing Music

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“I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.”

Wells Careers Creative Musician Actresses Music Career

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“Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.”

People Prove My Favorite Things To Do Favorites Things Proving People Wrong

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“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.”

Littles Persons Bigs Might Girl Healthy Hollywood Weight Big Girl Small Person Healthy Weight

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“It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Steps Human Nature Strange Like You Negative Can't Change Step Up

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“Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.”

Jobs Independent Good And Bad Contractor

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“I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!”

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“You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.”

Looks Clothes Expensive Expensive Clothes

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Real Problem Guy Actors Musician Fake

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“The average person tells a few white lies.”

Persons Lying White Average Average Person White Lie

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“I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.”

Constant Stimulation

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“I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.”

People Knows Used Hate Know How Selling Cabaret

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“I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.”

Way Long Energy Lines Dinner Memorizing

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Born: January 17, 1980
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 259

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