I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
— Zooey Deschanel
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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.
I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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.
In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.
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.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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.
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.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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.
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.
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
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.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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 like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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.
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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'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.
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.
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.
