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
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
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
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it’s like I try so hard and then people still say I’m offbeat. I’ve learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor. – Zooey Deschanel
I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood. – 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
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. – Zooey Deschanel
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she’d seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There’s a part of me that still believes it. – Zooey Deschanel
We all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies. – 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
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’ – 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
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’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 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’m a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don’t really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don’t stop, then you’ll never notice how tired you are. – Zooey Deschanel
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. – Zooey Deschanel
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn’t how I do things. – 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
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 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
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
