Zooey Deschanel Quotes - Page 4

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.

I started out doing musicals.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.

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 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?"

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.

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

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.

I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

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

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.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

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.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

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

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

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 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.

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.