Quotes from Zooey Deschanel

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

I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

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

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.

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

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

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

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.

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.

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

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

I started out doing musicals.