2:53 am - 04/10/2012
From her Marie Claire interview:
On not wanting children: “That’s never been my focus… My sister [Emily] was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. I like kids, and I like being around kids – but it was never an ambition, something, like, I need…I like working. That’s what I like doing. I like to work.”
She‘s not good in interviews: “I don’t do well with direct questions,” she admits. Deschanel tends to think out loud, talking in rough drafts, starting a sentence, then stopping, then starting another one, crumpling that one up, too. “I’m a person who gets better with practice,” she says. “Getting older is awesome — because you get more practice.”
Finding a new kind of fame on television: “It’s harder to do normal things,” she says. No longer can she run blithely into Ralph’s for a head of lettuce or some paper towels. “I think that if you haven’t been to the grocery store in a really long time, it’s really easy to get very out of touch,” she says.
Zooey on the criticism that she’s playing a “stereotype of female meekness, for being too girly, too dorky, too Zooey.”: “People do think I’m weird,” she says. “I don’t know why.”
On her career: “I always knew there was nothing else I wanted to do,” she says. “I wanted to sing, perform, act.”
She was a chubby kid, and she was bullied: At 12 she was “chubby,” which made her a target of bullies. “I was ridiculed. 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. Certainly you change, and you change perspective, you have other experiences. But isn’t it funny – I can still remember when I was treated differently from the way I’m treated now…I really don’t know why she spit at me. I just talked to her. I guess I wasn’t allowed to talk to her. I remember I couldn’t believe it.” The moment was searing, scarring, but ultimately transformative. It inspired Deschanel to reimagine herself, and over the next year, she carefully, painstakingly recast her persona, becoming more open, more empathic, less “stubborn.” She also shed 30 pounds. “All of a sudden,” she says, “everybody treated me differently.”
On whether she’s dating: “Honestly, I’m just going through a divorce, so I don’t really think that’s something I want to get into now. I don’t have time to date. I literally – don’t-have-time.”
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Zooey Deschanel doesn't want kids
From her Marie Claire interview:
On not wanting children: “That’s never been my focus… My sister [Emily] was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. I like kids, and I like being around kids – but it was never an ambition, something, like, I need…I like working. That’s what I like doing. I like to work.”
She‘s not good in interviews: “I don’t do well with direct questions,” she admits. Deschanel tends to think out loud, talking in rough drafts, starting a sentence, then stopping, then starting another one, crumpling that one up, too. “I’m a person who gets better with practice,” she says. “Getting older is awesome — because you get more practice.”
Finding a new kind of fame on television: “It’s harder to do normal things,” she says. No longer can she run blithely into Ralph’s for a head of lettuce or some paper towels. “I think that if you haven’t been to the grocery store in a really long time, it’s really easy to get very out of touch,” she says.
Zooey on the criticism that she’s playing a “stereotype of female meekness, for being too girly, too dorky, too Zooey.”: “People do think I’m weird,” she says. “I don’t know why.”
On her career: “I always knew there was nothing else I wanted to do,” she says. “I wanted to sing, perform, act.”
She was a chubby kid, and she was bullied: At 12 she was “chubby,” which made her a target of bullies. “I was ridiculed. 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. Certainly you change, and you change perspective, you have other experiences. But isn’t it funny – I can still remember when I was treated differently from the way I’m treated now…I really don’t know why she spit at me. I just talked to her. I guess I wasn’t allowed to talk to her. I remember I couldn’t believe it.” The moment was searing, scarring, but ultimately transformative. It inspired Deschanel to reimagine herself, and over the next year, she carefully, painstakingly recast her persona, becoming more open, more empathic, less “stubborn.” She also shed 30 pounds. “All of a sudden,” she says, “everybody treated me differently.”
On whether she’s dating: “Honestly, I’m just going through a divorce, so I don’t really think that’s something I want to get into now. I don’t have time to date. I literally – don’t-have-time.”
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Edited at 2012-04-10 02:25 am (UTC)
/sarcasm
IAWTC
Edited at 2012-04-10 03:26 am (UTC)
i had to reread that last sentence :/
i remember watching her on chelsea lately and she said they'd high five each other when they passed by each other in the hallway of their house
SUCH A GD HIPSTER. she's too cool for school.
seriously?
i just dont like kids
and lol there's that, too.
id also be too hard on myself. if i fucked something up, id feel guilty for forever
I have my cats, and that's all the mothering I need.
I'm the fun aunt/godmother.
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
I should put it on my fb because I'm so deep~
I am way to vain to allow my body to morph in such an unsavory fashion. Not to mention that I greatly dislike kids. Hence, it's a no-brainer to me.
She works steadily and professionally, pays her own bills, and is respectful and nuanced in her interviews. How does a polka dot, A-line dress negate actual adult fucking accomplishments??? I mean what IS this shit????
Edited at 2012-04-10 04:23 am (UTC)
and when does a character dictate what a real person is like??