Zooey Deschanel Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming. — Zooey Deschanel

I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. — Zooey Deschanel

Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. — Zooey Deschanel

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think. — Zooey Deschanel

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it. — Zooey Deschanel

California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone — Zooey Deschanel

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things. — Zooey Deschanel

You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good. — Zooey Deschanel

I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity. — Zooey Deschanel

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. — Zooey Deschanel

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman. — Zooey Deschanel

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job. — Zooey Deschanel

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad. — Zooey Deschanel

Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure. — Zooey Deschanel

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. — Zooey Deschanel

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be. — Zooey Deschanel

You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine. — Zooey Deschanel

There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it! — Zooey Deschanel

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world. — Zooey Deschanel

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada. — Zooey Deschanel

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself. — Zooey Deschanel

We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better — Zooey Deschanel

I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those. — Zooey Deschanel

Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love. — Zooey Deschanel

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all — Zooey Deschanel

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends. — Zooey Deschanel

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. — Zooey Deschanel

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't like plain nails. I get sad. — Zooey Deschanel

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. — Zooey Deschanel

Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again. — Zooey Deschanel

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. — Zooey Deschanel

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film. — Zooey Deschanel

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job. — Zooey Deschanel

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. — Zooey Deschanel

You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human. — Zooey Deschanel

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing. — Zooey Deschanel

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. — Zooey Deschanel

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys. — Zooey Deschanel

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way. — Zooey Deschanel

I finally figured out how to read origami directions. — Zooey Deschanel

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what? — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot. — Zooey Deschanel

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything. — Zooey Deschanel

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't! — Zooey Deschanel

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. — Zooey Deschanel

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. — Zooey Deschanel

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?' — Zooey Deschanel

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could. — Zooey Deschanel

I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me — Zooey Deschanel

I'm just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what? — Zooey Deschanel

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic. — Zooey Deschanel

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other. — Zooey Deschanel

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest. — Zooey Deschanel

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. — Zooey Deschanel

For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go. — Zooey Deschanel

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person. — Zooey Deschanel

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. — Zooey Deschanel

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them. — Zooey Deschanel

Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it? — Zooey Deschanel

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice. — Zooey Deschanel

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. — Zooey Deschanel

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out. — Zooey Deschanel

When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills! — Zooey Deschanel

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling. — Zooey Deschanel

If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not. — Zooey Deschanel

I think good actors tend to be really funny. — Zooey Deschanel

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring. — Zooey Deschanel

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it. — Zooey Deschanel

Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas. — Zooey Deschanel

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you. — Zooey Deschanel

In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse. — Zooey Deschanel

It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no ... and that no means no! — Zooey Deschanel

I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird. — Zooey Deschanel

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch. — Zooey Deschanel

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make. — Zooey Deschanel

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe. — Zooey Deschanel

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?' — Zooey Deschanel

It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product. — Zooey Deschanel