Zooey Deschanel: 'New Girl' Star Talks Fitting In With Hollywood, 'I Always Felt Like A Little Bit Of An Outsider'

It may be hard to believe, but even as the star of Fox's charming hit "New Girl," Zooey Deschanel feels like an outsider. In the new issue of Marie Claire, the actress opened up about struggling to fit in, and how she deals with haters.

"I always felt like a little bit of an outsider," she told the magazine. "Now I'm an outsider who's a satellite for the outsiders? All of a sudden I'm on the inside and it feels weird because I always saw myself as sort of not mainstream."

Deschanel also dished on the criticism she receives in Hollywood.

"I became aware that people were criticizing the way I speak, which seems weird to me," she said of critics commenting on her laidback and bubbly persona, admitting that they often mistake it for stupidity. "I speak the way I speak, and I am an intelligent person. Sometimes I lean into California-speak more for entertainment value. It's not that I can't live in a world without the word 'like.'

"My theory is that people in this day and age want to dismiss things. So they want to be able to dismiss you," she continued. "They say, 'You don't belong, you don't deserve this because here's why, and let me find an intellectual argument for why you wearing pink or cuff sleeves or a bow makes you not worthy of your accomplishments. Everything you've done doesn't matter because you wore the wrong thing or you speak in a way that's feminine or you identify yourself as feminine.' And I just think that's bulls--t."

Deschanel said that tries not to "pay any mind" to the negative comments, but admitted it's hard.

"Even I get slammed and overwhelmed by how negative the Internet can get," she said. "And I'm an adult."

Click here to see more of Zooey Deschanel in Marie Claire.