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Zooey Deschanel (26)

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

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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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• Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That’s just the greatest feeling.

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• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that’s just me – if they say I’m quirky, I’m quirky. It’s better than being boring.

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• For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

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• I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.

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• I can’t even remember the first time I started singing.

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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 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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• 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.

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

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• I started out doing musicals.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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