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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.

Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
Actor
Actress
Banjoist
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Film Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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LA
California
Zooey Claire Deschanel
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking This is the greatest thing I've ever learned.
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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.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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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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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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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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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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Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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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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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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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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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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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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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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