What led me to be an actor is ...

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
 Zooey Deschanel

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I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.
 Zooey Deschanel
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
 Zooey Deschanel
One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.
 Zooey Deschanel
It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
 Zooey Deschanel
I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
 Zooey Deschanel