Zooey Quotes

Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted-or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect-he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye. ~ J.D. Salinger

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again. ~ 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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. ~ Zooey Deschanel

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that. ~ Zooey Deschanel

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be. ~ Zooey Deschanel

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. ~ Zooey Deschanel

-Ех, как ми се иска да се ожениш!- възкликна ненадейно майка му със замечтан глас.
Всички в семейството – ясно, че и Зуи – познаваха склонността на госпожа Глас към нелогични изказвания. Тя се развихряше най-силно и най-величествено насред точно такива бурни, емоционални пререкания. Обаче този път свари Зуи неподготвен. Той издаде експлозивен звук, най-вече през носа – беше или смях, или точно обратното на смеха. Госпожа Глас се наведе бързо и тревожно напред, за да разбере какво е. Беше по-скоро смях и тя се облегна назад с облекчение.
-Ами иска ми се! – настоя тя. – Защо не се ожениш?
Зуи се поотпусна, извади сгъната ленена кърпичка от джоба на панталона си, разгъна я със замах и се изсекна в нея веднъж, два, три пъти. Прибра кърпичката и каза:
-Много обичам да пътувам с влак. Ожениш ли се, не можеш вече да се вредиш да седнеш до прозореца.
-Що за причина!
-Идеална причина е. Махай се, Беси. Остави ме на мира тук.

"I wish you'd get married," Mrs. Glass said, abruptly, wistfully. '
Everyone in the Glass family-Zooey certainly not last was familiar with this sort of non-sequitur from Mrs. Glass. It bloomed best, most sublimely, in the middle of an emotional flareup of just this kind. This time, it caught Zooey very much off guard, however. He gave an explosive sound, mostly through the nose, of either laughter or the opposite of laughter. Mrs. Glass quickly and anxiously leaned forward to see which it was. It was laughter, more ~ J.D. Salinger

It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know, not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making.
And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way. ~ J.D. Salinger

I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married. ~ J.D. Salinger

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.' IGN Logo ~ Zooey Deschanel

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do! ~ Zooey Deschanel

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me. ~ 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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?' ~ Zooey Deschanel

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! ~ Zooey Deschanel

The whitest thing I have ever done in my life was not repeatedly trying to get bangs after seeing pictures of Zooey Deschanel. The whitest thing I've done in my life was trying to save the Flint youth while I was visiting there. ~ Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person. ~ Zooey Deschanel

California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone ~ Zooey Deschanel

Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.
Instead, she left the room. ~ J.D. Salinger

Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. When I was finished, Boo Boo said flatly (but looking over at Seymour) that the story was "too clever." S. shook his head, beaming away at me, and said cleverness was my permanent affliction, my wooden leg, and that it was in the worst possible taste to draw the group's attention to it. As one limping man to another, old Zooey, let's be courteous and kind to each other. ~ J.D. Salinger

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I can't even remember the first time I started singing. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself ~ Zooey Deschanel

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

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Zooey said ... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family. ~ J.D. Salinger

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. ~ Zooey Deschanel

The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see our Zooey again. ~ J.D. Salinger

Humor is a part of spirituality. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. ~ Zooey Deschanel

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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

There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?' ~ Zooey Deschanel

It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there. ~ Zooey Deschanel

For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger than myself, and often entirely the Lady), to take off his or her galoshes on coming into the apartment, each and all of them knew he mostly meant that the floor would get tracked up if they didn't and that Bessie would have to get out the mop. When I told them to take off their galoshes, they knew I mostly meant that people who didn't were slobs. It was bound to make no small difference in the way they kidded or ragged us separately. ~ J.D. Salinger

Nothing could be as hard as middle school. ~ Zooey Deschanel

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I never stop myself from doing something because I'm afraid of what people might think. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ 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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos. ~ Zooey Deschanel

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't! ~ Zooey Deschanel

As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that. ~ J.D. Salinger

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.' ~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what? ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work done that will be thought good by everyone he knows ... ~ J.D. Salinger

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming. ~ Zooey Deschanel

In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!' ~ Zooey Deschanel

I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I think penguins are cute. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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. ~ Zooey Deschanel

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them. ~ Zooey Deschanel