Quotes from Zooey Deschanel


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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.


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.


I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.


I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.


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'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 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.


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.


I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.


I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.


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.


Nothing's better than a picnic.


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


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


I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.


Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.


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.


There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!


I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.


I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.