I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
Zooey DeschanelI still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
Zooey DeschanelIf 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
Zooey DeschanelI'm not doing it to pander to people. I just always knew what I liked versus what I don't like. I never liked things with too many zippers or spikes and stuff. That weirds me out. I like things that are pretty. And I think it's great to be pretty. I like being feminine. I think it's good to be feminine. We don't need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.
Zooey Deschanel