Zooey Deschanel
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
Zooey Deschanel

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

Zooey Deschanel
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
Zooey Deschanel

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

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

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.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

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

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

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

Zooey Deschanel
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.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

Zooey Deschanel
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
Zooey Deschanel

I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.