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Zooey Deschanel is an American actress, singer, and songwriter born on January 17, 1980, in Los Angeles. Known for her unique vintage style and quirky personality, she has appeared in films such as "Elf," "500 Days of Summer," "The New Guy," and "Yes Man." She gained critical acclaim for her role in "The Help," earning a Golden Globe nomination. Beyond acting, she co-founded the indie folk duo She & Him with musician M. Ward, showcasing her musical talents. Coming from a family in the entertainment industry, she has become one of Hollywood's most distinctive multi-hyphenate artists.

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Famous Zooey Deschanel Quotes

“For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Made Left Behinds Forgotten Left Behind Let It Go Behind You

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Eye Young Certain Girl Responsibility Deserve Look Up Public Eye

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Littles Kids Laughing Months Six Six Months Little Kid Your Best Friend

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Stories Situation Comedy Serving Being Funny

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Steps Human Nature Strange Like You Negative Can't Change Step Up

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.”

People Ifs Want Enough Morning

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“If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Girl Opportunity Given New Girl

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“If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.”

Ifs Want Real Play Mom My Mom Too Real

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

Ifs Character Jobs Challenges Nice Very Nice

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“I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Littles Home Might Particular Needed Late Guitar Piano Spares Location Keyboards Fruition Spare Time

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“I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Voice Millions Instruments Chords

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“I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.”

People Ifs Audience Judging Fine Judge Me

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“There are lots of things that everyone else likes that I hate. So I feel that audience rights are very important. I just want people to hear it and decide if they like it or don't like it as they would with anything else.”

People Ifs Want Feels Important Hate Audience Rights I Hate Likes

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.”

Ifs Thinking Years Use Used Talking Mood Cheer

Author: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.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Feels Art Fit Performing Dramatic Scare Sincerity Performing Arts

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.”

Ifs Thinking Long Easy Havens Long Time Stores Groceries Easy To Get Grocery Stores Really Long

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?”

Ifs Hate Fine Cute Puppy

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“I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.”

Ifs Degrees Safety Blanket Tights

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“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.”

Ifs Wells Doe Ideas Worst No Idea

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

Ifs Giving Self Would Be Advice Calm If I Could Calm Down

Author: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.”

Ifs Persons Energy Figures Stress Tired Keep Going De Stress

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“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.”

Ifs Certain Personality Aspect Boring Screens Quirky

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Mean Attention Strange Crowds Do You Know Embarrassed Dichotomy

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'”

Ifs Children Said Wanted Actors Parent Mom My Mom If I Could Auditions Child Actors

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Done Found Left Stuff Challenges Havens Boring Always Trying Niche Laurels

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“I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.”

Ifs Made Roles Willing Lots Of Money Reminding Picky

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.”

Ifs Character Able Actors Fun Rooms Written Pages Mediums Rhythm

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“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.”

Ifs Country Speak Lessons Appreciate Hot Fishes Eight Stores Los Angeles Toys Dictatorship Marxist Blazing Speak English

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.”

Ifs Knows Hours Stores Endless Manage Groceries Grocery Stores Endless Time

Author:Zooey Deschanel

About the Author

Born: January 17, 1980
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 259

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