black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

Zooey Deschanel

It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Fun Girl Important Mean
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Advice Giving Self
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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Hart Jazz Thinking
It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Connected Crazy Littles
I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Romantic Sense Thinking
There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Mean Opposites Ukulele
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Hug People Wake
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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Children Dream Girl
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Dollars Needs Song
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

Actors Roles Stories
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Crazy Movies People
I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Schedules Thrive Type
Making movies, you’re like an independent contractor – you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Bad Good Independent Jobs
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

Believe Grandparents Years
You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Clothes Expensive Clothes Looks
I think good actors tend to be really funny.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Actors Funny Good Thinking

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Zooey Deschanel Quotes