Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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

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

"I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me."

"I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice."

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

"Humor is a part of spirituality."

"Everyone romanticizes somebody."

"In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type."

"I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person."

"If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'"

"Nothing could be as hard as middle school."

"I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy."

"I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody."

"Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars."

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

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

"It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts."

"I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music."

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

"For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working."

"If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job."

"I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that."

"Romantic comedies are usually about when love works."

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

"You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good."