Top 180 Zooey Deschanel Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.”

— Zooey Deschanel

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.”

— Zooey Deschanel

56. “California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone.”

— Zooey Deschanel

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “Change is hard, I should know. I should know.”

— Zooey Deschanel

61. “I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.”

— Zooey Deschanel

62. “I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, ‘Well you’re never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don’t even try.’ I mean, I care about being pretty, but it’s not my most valued thing.”

— Zooey Deschanel

63. “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

64. “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

65. “I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it’s at and where a lot of trends begin. It’s where new filmmakers are breaking through.”

— Zooey Deschanel

66. “It’s very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don’t mean to say it’s very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that’s my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.”

— Zooey Deschanel

67. “I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.”

— Zooey Deschanel

68. “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.”

— Zooey Deschanel

69. “For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don’t know why.”

— Zooey Deschanel

70. “I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I’m in a crowd of people and they’re all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It’s a strange dichotomy.”

— Zooey Deschanel

71. “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

72. “I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.”

— Zooey Deschanel

73. “I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’”

— Zooey Deschanel

74. “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

75. “I’m a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.”

— Zooey Deschanel

76. “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

77. “Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.”

— Zooey Deschanel

78. “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

79. “The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it’s just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.”

— Zooey Deschanel

80. “I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.”

— Zooey Deschanel

81. “Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.”

— Zooey Deschanel

82. “I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.”

— Zooey Deschanel

83. “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

84. “I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.”

— Zooey Deschanel

85. “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

86. “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

87. “I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.”

— Zooey Deschanel

88. “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

89. “I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.”

— Zooey Deschanel

90. “I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.”

— Zooey Deschanel

91. “Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.”

— Zooey Deschanel

92. “If ‘New Girl’ had been a movie, I don’t know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.”

— Zooey Deschanel

93. “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

94. “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

95. “I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you’re able to express things without always worrying about the text. It’s great to have a great text, but there’s a lot of stuff you can’t say in words, and I think there’s something really nice about good physical moments.”

— Zooey Deschanel

96. “I think penguins are cute.”

— Zooey Deschanel

97. “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

98. “I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I’m memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.”

— Zooey Deschanel

99. “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

100. “I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.”

— Zooey Deschanel