Zooey Deschanel Quotes

• You can’t expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

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  Tags in Kind, Understanding

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sang, Reason, Musical

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivates, Human Beings

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Dressing

• It’s a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy, Attention, Everybody

• If I’m trying to please every craze fan, then I can’t. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Little

• I’m the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I’m really surprised if a movie I like does well.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, Really, Worst

• 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.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Performing, Music

• I’m always trying to do stuff I haven’t done before or challenge myself so I’m not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I’d be pretty boring, I think.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Challange, Myself

• I wasn’t really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfortable, Acting, Singing

• 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.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Music

• I think it’s better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don’t corrupt each other, so to speak.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in Personal

• I think I’m a fun flatmate. I’m always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it’s 12 people on one bus and I feel like I’m the one who’s happy in the morning. I’m not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Happy, Feel

• I started out doing musicals.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Musicals

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Spend, Time

• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singing

• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Follow, Speak

• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kill, Believe

• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Music

• I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrifying

Zooey Deschanel (26)

Birth:	17th January, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Model, Singer

About

Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous.

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