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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
Actor
Actress
Banjoist
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
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LA
California
Zooey Claire Deschanel
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.
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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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The average person tells a few white lies.
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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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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.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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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.
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You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.
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That's one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It's a moment in time, and the less it's messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.
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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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