Top 100 Zooey Deschanel Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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#3. When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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#4. I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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#5. 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
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#6. I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
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#7. If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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#8. 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.
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#9. '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?'
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#10. It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#19. 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?
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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#24. I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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#28. I might as well just call you "Bridge to Terabithia" since you make children cry!
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#29. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
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#30. My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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#31. 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.
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#32. I never stop myself from doing something because I'm afraid of what people might think.
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#33. 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
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#34. I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
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#35. I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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!
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#40. 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.
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#41. I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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#43. I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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#46. I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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#47. Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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#48. I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town, (there are) crazy hours and all of the things that go with filmmaking, which is a pretty all-consuming business, although I'm very blessed to be a part of it.
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#51. If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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#52. The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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#53. If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
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#58. You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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#59. In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
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#60. Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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#61. There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
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#62. I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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#63. 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!
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#65. I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.
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#66. 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
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#67. Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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#68. I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.
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#69. 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?
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#70. I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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#71. I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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#76. 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.
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#77. When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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#78. I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.
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#79. I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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#81. I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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#82. I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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#83. 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.'
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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
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#89. 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.
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#90. The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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#91. I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.
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#92. You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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#93. It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.
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#94. I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.
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#95. 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.
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#96. I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.
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#97. For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
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#98. We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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#99. Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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#100. I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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