Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing's better than a picnic.

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

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

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.

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

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

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

I finally figured out how to read origami directions.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't like plain nails. I get sad.

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.

The average person tells a few white lies.

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.

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

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

I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

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.

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

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.

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.

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

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

I think penguins are cute.

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.