110+ Zooey Deschanel Quotes On Marriage, Bones And Frasier

Zooey Deschanel is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is best known for her roles in films such as 500 Days of Summer, Elf, Yes Man, and New Girl. She is also the lead singer of the indie folk band She & Him. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Zooey Deschanel on marriage, life, love.

Top 10 Zooey Deschanel Quotes

1. After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.
2. 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?
3. I need a coffee to go with my coffee.
4. It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.
5. I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
6. I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
7. 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
8. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
9. 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.
10. When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.

Zooey Deschanel Short Quotes

• The average person tells a few white lies.
• You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
• Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.
• It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
• My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
• California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone
• Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.
• There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
• I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Life

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life. — Zooey Deschanel

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life. — Zooey Deschanel

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak. — Zooey Deschanel

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart? — Zooey Deschanel

Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before. — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Love

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could. — Zooey Deschanel

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

I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there. — Zooey Deschanel

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.' — Zooey Deschanel

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time. — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Singing

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. — Zooey Deschanel

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. — Zooey Deschanel

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other. — Zooey Deschanel

Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for — Zooey Deschanel

I can't even remember the first time I started singing. — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Music

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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." — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About People

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. — 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

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling. — Zooey Deschanel

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?" — Zooey Deschanel

In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — 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

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Quotes About Feel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. — Zooey Deschanel

There are lots of things that everyone else likes that I hate. So I feel that audience rights are very important. I just want people to hear it and decide if they like it or don't like it as they would with anything else. — Zooey Deschanel

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 — Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music. — Zooey Deschanel

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

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans. — 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

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out. — Zooey Deschanel

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

I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies. — Zooey Deschanel

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it. — 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 think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think. — Zooey Deschanel

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? — Zooey Deschanel

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

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! — Zooey Deschanel

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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... — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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 — Zooey Deschanel

I don't like plain nails. I get sad. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I'm not doing it to pander to people. I just always knew what I liked versus what I don't like. I never liked things with too many zippers or spikes and stuff. That weirds me out. I like things that are pretty. And I think it's great to be pretty. I like being feminine. I think it's good to be feminine. We don't need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way. — Zooey Deschanel

I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what? — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised. — 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 think good actors tend to be really funny. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got... — Zooey Deschanel

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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

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! — Zooey Deschanel

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities. — Zooey Deschanel

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. — Zooey Deschanel

Life Lessons by Zooey Deschanel

1. Zooey Deschanel is a great example of staying true to yourself and following your dreams, no matter how unconventional they may seem.
2. She has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as she has been able to make a name for herself in both the music and acting industries.
3. Her work also serves as a reminder that it is important to take risks and try new things in order to grow and reach your full potential.