Zooey Deschanel

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

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

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

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

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

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

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

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

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

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

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

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

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.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

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.

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.

I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

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.'

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.

'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?'

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

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.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I started out doing musicals.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

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 gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

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

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

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.

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.