Zooey Deschanel

“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 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.”

“I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.”

“I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.”

“I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.”

“The average person tells a few white lies.”

“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.”

“Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.”

“I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.”

“Nothing could be as hard as middle school.”

“I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.”

“For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.”

“I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.”

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

“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.”

“Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.”

“I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.”

“Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.”

“I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.”

“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.”