Zooey Deschanel
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
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.Collection: Song
Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.Collection: Heart
It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.Collection: Morning
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.Collection: Life
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?Collection: People
Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.Collection: Coffee
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.Collection: Writing
I need a coffee to go with my coffee.Collection: Coffee
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?Collection: Kings
I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.Collection: Thinking
When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Powerful
I don't like plain nails. I get sad.Collection: Beauty
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.Collection: People
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Appreciation
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.'Collection: Want
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.Collection: Knowing
I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Dark
There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it allCollection: Wall
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.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Fans
I finally figured out how to read origami directions.Collection: Origami
I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.Collection: Thinking
Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantic.Collection: Blossoming
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Believe
I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Cheer
If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.Collection: Girl
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...Collection: Thinking
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 betterCollection: Stars
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 forCollection: Want