DL: Our next guest is a very talented young actress. She's appearing in a new motion picture entitled The Good Girl, it opens August 9th. Please welcome Zooey Deschanel everyone.

DL: Welcome to the show.

ZD: Thank you!

DL: You look wonderful.

ZD: Thank you.

DL: Do me a favor and others and tell us a little bit about yourself. Where you're from and what your life was like growing up, that kind of thing.

ZD: Okay, well, um. I'm from Los Angeles, but my dad's a cinematographer, so I went on location a lot as a kid. So I lived in a lot of different places.

DL: All over the world.

ZD: All over the world. Um, we lived in the Seychelle Islands...

DL: Wow. That's fairly exotic, huh?

ZL: It's very exotic.

DL: Where exactly are the Seychelle Islands?

ZD: The Seychelle Islands are off the east coast of Africa.

DL: Ah, yeah. It's beautiful?

ZD: It's beautiful. It's under a Socialistic Dictatorship, though. So it's kind of difficult, because people are listening to your phone conversations all the time.

DL: Really?

ZD: Yeah. [Laughs]

DL: How old were you when you were there?

ZD: Seven.

DL: Seven years old.

ZD: Yeah. And, um, you know, things are scarce there. Because, you know, there's not a lot of stuff. Consumerism is not...

DL: Right.

ZD: And um, there was one store, and it pretty much carried everything. It was like a grocery store, it had clothes, and it had a video club in the back that had two videos.

ZD: [Laughing] One was the second half of Gandhi and the other one was This is Spinal Tap, so...

DL: Well, there you go.

DL: That's all you need to run a socialist island. And did you like this, did you find it adventurous, or were you kind of...

ZD: Well, I mean, I hated it, because I had to get shots actually. And I had to get a Typhoid shot to go to the Seychelles, and that kind of makes you sick. But you have to get two when you're a kid. So the first one I got, and I thought it was over with, and then I was tricked into going to the doctor again. And I was chased around a room for forty-five minutes. I alluded him, but...I tried to reason with him, but, uh, it didn't work, so...

DL: But, he was only trying to help, though.

ZD: He was only trying to help. I didn't realize what a horrible disease Typhoid was and that I didn't want to get it. I just didn't want to be pricked with a needle.

DL: And when you were a kid, where else did you live?

ZD: Um, I lived on Yugoslavia. Um, in Yugoslavia.

ZD: Yeah, that was like the land of milk and honey after the Seychelles. We went there right afterwards and um, the Yugoslavian people are a sort of interesting...brand...of people.

ZD: They're still really angry about a war that happened, like, four hundred years ago I think.

ZD: And um, they drink Vodka all day long.

DL: Wow!

ZD: Yeah. They wake up at one in the afternoon. And like, [in a Yugoslavian accent] "I wake up at one in the afternoon, and I drink Vodka..."

ZD: "And then I have some paprika, and then I drink more Vodka." And it usually goes on to like Vodka, food, Vodka, food, party, Vodka, food, Vodka, and then bed at four.

DL: Yeah, sounds like it could be a very pleasant way of life.

ZD: It could be, I mean, it just depends on how much you like Vodka.

DL: Well sure! Well, who doesn't like Vodka?

ZD: Who doesn't really?

DL: What about your schooling? How were you able to...did you go to school every place you lived?

ZD: Yeah, I mean, we went to the American School in London when we were there. And then I went to like a progressive high school.

DL: Now, what do you mean "progressive high school"? Is that a good thing?

ZD: It's a good thing. I mean, I did very well in high school. But, in elementary school I was a terrible trouble maker, and I was in the office everyday, and my teachers hated me. And, I just actually went over all my report cards from when I was a kid, and they're all just scathing. My teachers just hated me. My sixth grade teacher told me I'd never make it through seventh grade.

DL: Oh my God.

ZD: It's true. So I was basically, like, in the office everyday, and there was like a pentagonal fish tank and I would just sit and watch the fishes, like, circulate.

ZD: It was like an exercise in boredom. So, it was...I mean, it was fu- uhh, fun?

DL: And were they worried for you? Did they make comments about you?

ZD: Well, they tried to get my parents to send me to a psychologist when I was in kindergarten.

ZD: Because I would take food from my lunch before it was time for lunch.

DL: MmHmm, well that doesn't seem like a major psychological disorder.

ZD: Like, I was hungry. God forbid! So they were like, "Um, Zooey takes food from her lunch, like at ten a.m."

DL: That would be a snack.

ZD: Yeah, that would be a snack. Exactly.

DL: Now that you're older and you have a career, and I know it's very taxing working on films, and you seem like now you've kind of done it all your life because of your father's experience and your experience.

ZD: Yes, yes.

DL: And when you have free time, what sort of things do you pursue? Do you have hobbies?

ZD: Oh, uh. It's funny you should mention that Dave, because I have a lot of hobbies.

DL: Well, what do you know? I hit pay dirt.

ZD: Yeah, I like to um...Well, I sing, and I play the ukulele, I play piano. Oh, baritone ukulele, excuse me. And um, I like to make color Xeroxes of things.

ZD: [Laughing] I clip out pictures of Liza Minnelli and her husband from magazines [starts laughing again] and I fax them to people...anonymously.

DL: Let's go back to the color Xeroxing.

ZD: Yeah.

DL: What exactly are you Xeroxing? What are you copying?

ZD: Well, just funny pictures. I have a color Xeroxer at my house. It comes in handy. I make, you know, collages, funny things. Just little...little...little anecdotes.

DL: Are you living at a Kinko's? Is that how? How is that possible? You have a color Xeroxer.

ZD: I am. I am living at a Kinko's.

DL: Well, you're a lovely young woman. It's a pleasure to meet you.

ZD: It's a pleasure to meet you!

DL: And I hope you can come back and see us often.

ZD: I would love to come back.

DL: Now let's mention your movie.

ZD: It's called The Good Girl.

DL: The Good Girl, and it opens August 9th.

ZD: August 9th.

DL: And uh, you and also Jennifer Aniston.

ZD: Jennifer Aniston, who's wonderful and I love her.

DL: Yeah, good to see you.

ZD: Good to see you.

DL: Nice to meet you.

ZD: Thank you!

DL: Zooey Deschanel.

DL: Just stay there. We'll be right back.