Zooey Deschanel famous quotes

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#People #Feelings #Aim

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

#Kids #Thinking #Laughing

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

#Depressing #Goal #People

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

#Mean #Writing #Player

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

#Girl #Cutting #Men

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Laughing #People

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Beach #School #Boys

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it. I know what's working and what's not working.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Trying #Television #Privilege

That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?
-- Zooey Deschanel

#People #Pet #Pet Peeve

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

#Girl #Fun #Mean

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

#Morning #Coffee #World

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Knowing #Ideas #Facts

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

#Song #Gratitude #Powerful

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

#Years #Trying #Littles

Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Beautiful #Powerful #Heart

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.' IGN Logo
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Logos #Want #My Sister

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Summer #My Favorite #Feels

There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Joy #Great Friend #Compare

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Believe #Neptune #Earth

I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Fashion #Character #Thinking

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

#People #Hug #World

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Coffee #Needs

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
-- Zooey Deschanel

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

#Thinking #Talking #Tvs

When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Kids #Class #Wonderful

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Women #Youth #Pageant

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

#Beauty #Nails

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

#Christmas #Song #Singing

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Skills #Long #People

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Men #College #Site

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#My Favorite #Novel

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

#Exercise #Class #Skills

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Hours #Groceries #Grocery Stores

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Comedy

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Beautiful #Growing Up #Pilates

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

#Home #Night #Shoes

Nothing's better than a picnic.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Picnics

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#School #Middle School #Middle

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Forever #Singing

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Jobs #Singing #Clubs

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Morning #Fun #Thinking

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Clothes #Addiction #Dresses

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Sweet #Thinking #Winning

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Stress #Tired #Energy

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Personality #Quirky #Boring

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.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Writing #School #Unique

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

#Real #Heart #Broken

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

#New York #Gluten #Stuff

The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Wall #Freedom #Believe

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

#Cute #Vintage #Hot

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Stars #Growing Up #School

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Life #Heart #Shapes

Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Life #Falling In Love #Love Is

I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Appreciation #Thinking #People

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?
-- Zooey Deschanel

#People #Trying #Trouble

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

#Children #Winter #Thinking

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Trying #Enough

Change is hard, I should know. I should know.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Should

Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Want #Let Me

When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Littles #Shy #Cry

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

#Wall #Lying #Thieves

Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Worry #Be Kind #Wells

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

#California #Gone #Bigs

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

#Home #Get Better #Doe

That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Mean #Fighting #Thinking

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

#People #Boring #Blah

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

#Writing #Thinking #Goes On

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Heart #Vulnerable #Coldness

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Life #Heart #Old Habits

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Believe #Successful #People

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, ‘Pregnant and Alone!’ Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me,
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Feminist #Tabloids #Should

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

#Feminist #Want #Peter

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

#Girl #Faces #Awareness

I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Strong #Children #Sorry

I'm not doing it to pander to people. I just always knew what I liked versus what I don't like. I never liked things with too many zippers or spikes and stuff. That weirds me out. I like things that are pretty. And I think it's great to be pretty. I like being feminine. I think it's good to be feminine. We don't need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Powerful #Men #Thinking

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

#Cheer #Thinking #Talking

It`s not about women acting like man, it`s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Men #Acting #Feminism

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Girl #Dream #Growing Up

I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Real #Hard Times #Two

I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Years #Skins

Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Love Is #Individual

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

#People #Tights #Skinny

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Speak #Bliss

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Reflection #Who I Am

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

#Collaboration #Television #Solitary

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Real #Insecure #Musician

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

#Cds #Tools #Computer

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#School #Singing #Acting

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Thinking #Way #Comedy

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

#Schedules #Type #Thrive

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

#Hair #Years #Bangs

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Children #Growing Up #Singing

I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Summer #Hate #Camping

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

#Beach #Boys #Beach Boys

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Sadness #Interesting #Upbeat