Quote

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

Zooey Deschanel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
Actor
Actress
Banjoist
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Zooey Claire Deschanel
Story
Funny
Comes
Ends
Stories
Serving
Think
Telling
Thinking
Comedy
Situation

More quotes by Zooey Deschanel

Image
Change is hard, I should know. I should know.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
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
Image
I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?
Zooey Deschanel
Image
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
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
Image
Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
If you're in the public eye and you have young girls who look up to what you do, they're going to look to you for certain cues, so you have to take that as a responsibility, whether you think you deserve it or not.
Zooey Deschanel
Image
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel