Welcome to the world of Zooey Deschanel quotes! Zooey Deschanel is not only a talented actress and singer but also a source of inspiration with her witty, charming, and insightful words. Whether you’re a fan of her work in movies and TV shows like New Girl or adore her musical talents with the band She & Him, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes that capture her unique perspective on life, love, creativity, and more. From humorous one-liners to profound reflections, Zooey’s quotes offer a delightful glimpse into her personality and philosophy.
Below, you’ll find a collection of Zooey Deschanel’s most memorable quotes that you can use to brighten your day, share with friends, or even use as a source of inspiration for your own creative projects. Feel free to copy them, incorporate them into your designs, or enhance them with stylish fonts to make them truly your own. Let Zooey’s words resonate with you, and let’s explore the wisdom and wit of this talented actress and musician together!
‘Pastoralia’ by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. Zooey Deschanel
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. Zooey Deschanel
I can’t even remember the first time I started singing. Zooey Deschanel
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
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’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
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
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. Zooey Deschanel
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. Zooey Deschanel
You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good. Zooey Deschanel
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing. Zooey Deschanel
People sometimes say, ‘Oh, you were a movie star,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I was a supporting actress.’ I wasn’t an A-list actress, and I’m fine with that. I’m proud of what I did in film. 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
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 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. Zooey Deschanel
I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time. Zooey Deschanel
I’m always doing something musically – when I’m working or when I’m off. Zooey Deschanel
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. Zooey Deschanel
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that. Zooey Deschanel
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways. Zooey Deschanel
I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me. Zooey Deschanel
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. Zooey Deschanel
True love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves. Zooey Deschanel
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn’t understand why people would always have different ideas of me – but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it. Zooey Deschanel
‘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?’ 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 you can make a character likable that’s not very nice, that’s the challenge of the job. 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
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’m a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around. 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 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
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. Zooey Deschanel
You can’t expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. Zooey Deschanel
I started out doing musicals. 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
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself. Zooey Deschanel
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’ Zooey Deschanel
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. 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
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works. Zooey Deschanel
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird. Zooey Deschanel
I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there. 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
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys. Zooey Deschanel
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. 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 really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. Zooey Deschanel
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. Zooey Deschanel
Nothing could be as hard as middle school. Zooey Deschanel
You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it’s the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you’re still like, ‘Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.’ At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you’re just a human. Zooey Deschanel
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. 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 wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do! Zooey Deschanel
I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome – because you get more practice. Zooey Deschanel
I like to play the ukulele, but I’m not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. 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 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
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation. 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
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’ Zooey Deschanel
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
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
Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything. Zooey Deschanel
It’s interesting, because as a musician, I don’t feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. 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
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 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
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long. 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
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal. Zooey Deschanel
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those. Zooey Deschanel
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That’s just the greatest feeling. 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 like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. 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 hate camping, but I love summer camp. 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 will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. Zooey Deschanel
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. Zooey Deschanel
The first album I bought with my own money was ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ Zooey Deschanel
I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I’ve always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear. Zooey Deschanel
For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don’t know why. Zooey Deschanel
I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying. Zooey Deschanel
There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the ’60s and ’70s – but they’re so itchy and hot. It’s not worth it! 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 think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. Zooey Deschanel
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
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. Zooey Deschanel
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that’s just the way they do things. It’s like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it’s due. Zooey Deschanel
I don’t know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, ‘I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.’ That’s a very good way to keep women down. 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
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
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician’s terms, I don’t know as much as real musicians. Zooey Deschanel
If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies? 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
The Internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it. Zooey Deschanel
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. Zooey Deschanel
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. Zooey Deschanel
I’ve had experiences where I wasn’t allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That’s not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character’s rhythms. If there’s room to explore, you find a happy medium. Zooey Deschanel
