Zooey Deschanel Quotes - Page 7

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!

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.

Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

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.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

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.

That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.

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.

I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

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.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

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.

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.