Top 100 Deschanel's Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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?
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#4. 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.
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#5. I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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#6. In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
Caleb Deschanel
#7. We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.
Emily Deschanel
#8. 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
#9. 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.
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#10. Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantiC.
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#11. It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
Mayim Bialik
#12. Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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#18. To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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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#21. I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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#22. One day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies
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#23. I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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#24. I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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#25. 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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#26. I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
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#27. If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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#28. 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.
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#29. In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.
Emily Deschanel
#30. Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.
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#31. 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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#32. I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.
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#34. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.
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#35. Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit betterYet they are treated by the meat industry as though they are inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.
Emily Deschanel
#36. '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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#37. 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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#38. I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
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#39. 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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#40. I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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#41. 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.
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#42. When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."
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#43. 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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#44. I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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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#49. 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.
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#50. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.
Emily Deschanel
#58. 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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#59. My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.
Emily Deschanel
#60. 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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#61. I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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#62. It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?
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#65. I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means ... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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#66. I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise ... No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.
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#67. It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.
Emily Deschanel
#68. 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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#69. Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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#73. I might as well just call you "Bridge to Terabithia" since you make children cry!
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#74. Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
Caleb Deschanel
#75. For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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#76. I like doing the comedic episodes because it's refreshing. I enjoy doing comedic things and physical comedy. It's fun.
Emily Deschanel
#77. I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
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#78. I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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#79. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
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#80. My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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#81. 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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#82. I never stop myself from doing something because I'm afraid of what people might think.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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.
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#87. It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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#88. I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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#89. 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
#90. The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.
Emily Deschanel
#92. 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
#93. 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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#94. I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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#95. I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
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#96. I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.
Emily Deschanel
#97. I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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