I 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 DeschanelThat people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening โฆ I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.
Zooey DeschanelMaking movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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