Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

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.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

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

I started out doing musicals.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.