Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

~ Zooey Deschanel

Humor is a part of spirituality.

~ Zooey Deschanel

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.'

~ Zooey Deschanel

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

~ Zooey Deschanel

When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

~ Zooey Deschanel

There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

~ Zooey Deschanel

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.'

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

~ Zooey Deschanel

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

~ Zooey Deschanel