Zooey Deschanel: How To LET GO Of Other Opinions & ALIGN With Your Most AUTHENTIC TRUTH!

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12What is the part you played or the project you worked on that taught you the most about yourself? Maybe it was a well-known thing that people know about and see, or maybe it was something small that no one really ever saw, but what's the part you've played in your career that taught you the most about you? Probably like getting to do New Girl because it was so long. Like it was over, you know, seven seasons. And for me, it was like eight years of my life. And before that, you know, because I would do like go from film to film, you show like less of yourself with a film. I was probably playing less lead roles, more like large supporting roles.

0:51And you show just like more, you're kind of like picking and choosing like what you show. and that's, you know, an important thing in terms of, like, telling the story. Sure. But when you're telling, like, this very broad story and it's very long and you have, like, you know, a limited number of, like, lead characters and you show a lot of yourself. And before that, I also was not necessarily known for doing that kind of, a little bit more broad comedy. Like, I wasn't doing that. I knew it was something I could do. That was like, when I read that script, I'm like, I know I haven't done this before, but I know I can nail this.

1:32I felt extremely confident, like, I know I can do this. And I know nobody thinks of me as this yet. My first thing when I was really young, first in my career, and I remember I would go to auditions and I would do movies. and I would get cast in a lot of these like kind of sardonic, deadpan, sarcastic kind of roles and then move in playing like girlfriends and things like that. It was just different. It was different from a lot of the stuff I'd done. So it was fun to get to be like, I can do, you know. It's like nice when you know, like you know, you're like, I haven't done this, but I know I can nail it.

2:12Wow. That was like, it did teach me a lot to have confidence in the things where you're like, I know I can value add here. Wow. So eight years of your life for one project, essentially. Yeah, long time. Personally in your life, in your career, what opened up for you during that time? That you've got to get enough sleep. Sleep? Sleep is so important. Your health. We were just working so hard. Our first, like, three seasons, we were, like, not getting. Like, I mean, we were just, like, working so hard and just, like, spending so many hours on set. Really? And I got into horseback riding at that time.

2:46The time I spent outside with animals, I would take all these vitamins to help make sure that I didn't get sick. I did not get sick ever. Everyone was like, couldn't believe it. But that was because I really started really taking care of myself. Really? Yeah. Did you feel yourself starting to get tired or exhausted from just all the shooting? I was so exhausted. Yeah, we were all so tired. Oh, my gosh. Like 16 hour days, just nonstop. All the time. Yeah. Really? And the season was what? Three to four months roughly or less? Eight months. Eight months for the season? Yeah. That's intense. It was intense.

3:21Yeah. I mean, we all, we spent more time around our castmates, like at our, you know, like our crew than we did around our families. Wow. Yeah. What else opened up for you during that time? I had both my kids while I was on the show. Wow. So I did like. How was that? Being a mom and being a star of a show? It was really hard. It's like you have two high demanding jobs. You know, being a mom and being a star of a star show. I will say, too, that my sister was on the same lot as me shooting her show. Wow. And also she had her younger baby around the same time I had my older one. So they're just a couple months apart.

4:06So they got to be together. They got to be together. Yeah, it was nice because she's such a great role model. She gave me so much guidance, you know? I'm not one to ask for help very much, but getting advice from people can really just be so helpful. Was she there the whole time filming as well? Pretty much. Almost, I think the last season of my show she was done, but she was pretty much, because her show went like 11 seasons. It's crazy to me now to think my mom had this thing, because from the time I was little, I was like, I have to do this. And she's like, okay. Then my parents made a deal with me because they were like, we know a lot of child actors and we're like not cool with that.

4:44Don't turn out well. Just because it's just, it's a lot. And you have to have a special temperament, which they're like, you don't have. It's like, you have to like be okay doing something over and over again. And like, it's a different skill than being like a grownup actor. Right. So they're like, once you can drive yourself to auditions, you can get an agent. And so basically when I was like 16, I was like, here we go.

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