Top 262 Quotes & Sayings by Zooey Deschanel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Zooey Deschanel.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
I started out doing musicals.
I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
Nothing's better than a picnic.
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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