“I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.”
Zooey Deschanel“I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.”
Zooey Deschanel“Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.”
Zooey Deschanel“I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.”
Zooey Deschanel“My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'”
Zooey Deschanel“If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.”
Zooey Deschanel“I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'”
Zooey Deschanel“I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.”
Zooey Deschanel“From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.”
Zooey Deschanel“I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.”
Zooey Deschanel“I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.”
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