Zooey Deschanel quotes
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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 tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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.
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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.