Top 180 Zooey Deschanel Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.”

— Zooey Deschanel

105. “I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she’s a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.”

— Zooey Deschanel

106. “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

107. “I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.”

— Zooey Deschanel

108. “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

109. “I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.”

— Zooey Deschanel

110. “I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.”

— Zooey Deschanel

111. “If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?”

— Zooey Deschanel

112. “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

113. “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

114. “Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the ’50s: You’re stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.”

— Zooey Deschanel

115. “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

116. “In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’”

— Zooey Deschanel

117. “My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.”

— Zooey Deschanel

118. “There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters – ‘He does this, and she’s a really interesting character because she does this.’ I’m not like that at all. I’m not an actory actor.”

— Zooey Deschanel

119. “I can’t even remember the first time I started singing.”

— Zooey Deschanel

120. “In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.”

— Zooey Deschanel

121. “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

122. “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

123. “I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome – because you get more practice.”

— Zooey Deschanel

124. “I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.”

— Zooey Deschanel

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “If you can make a character likable that’s not very nice, that’s the challenge of the job.”

— Zooey Deschanel

129. “I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.”

— Zooey Deschanel

130. “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

131. “The average person tells a few white lies.”

— Zooey Deschanel

132. “Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.”

— Zooey Deschanel

133. “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

134. “I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.”

— Zooey Deschanel

135. “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.”

— Zooey Deschanel

136. “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.”

— Zooey Deschanel

137. “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

138. “I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!”

— Zooey Deschanel

139. “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

140. “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

141. “I put myself out there; it’s part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.”

— Zooey Deschanel

142. “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

143. “I’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.”

— Zooey Deschanel

144. “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

145. “I started out doing musicals.”

— Zooey Deschanel

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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

149. “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

150. “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.”

— Zooey Deschanel