"Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone."

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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

— Zooey Deschanel