308 Quotes by Zooey Deschanel

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

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

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

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.