56 Quotes by Emily Deschanel

The minute you become a parent, you’re always going to wonder if you’re doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It’s a big challenge, and you can’t help wondering if you’re doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.

The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.

David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He’s probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he’s silly he’s pretty silly.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren’t things I don’t love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. I’m in awe of the process and science.

Everything I know about makeup, I’ve learned from my sister.

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.

I’m a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don’t use animal products, so you don’t wear leather, you don’t wear wool, and you don’t eat animal products. But you can eat French fries and stuff like that all day long.

It’s very nice to work with my father as a peer in a lot of ways. You know, he asked me advice about certain things about the show and I’d ask him and sometimes I’d listen to his direction and sometimes I wouldn’t.