Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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?

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

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.

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

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

I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

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

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

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.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

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

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

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

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

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

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

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.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.

I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.