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born 1980 United States

Zooey Claire Deschanel (born 17 January 1980) is an American actress, songwriter and singer who performs with M. Ward as the group She & Him, and stars in the comedy television series New Girl.

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I want to make people feel better, whether it’s myself, or a friend, or whoever.

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

Statement in These Amazing Shadows (2011)

I somehow see what's beautiful
In things that are ephemeral
I'm my only friend of mine
And love is just a piece of time
in the world
in the world.
And I couldn't help but fall in love again.

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

What's in my pocket?
You never knew
You didn't know me well
So well, as I knew you

Volume Two (2010)

I was never no, never no, never enough,
But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music.

Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours
I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door

Volume Two (2010)

It's nowhere in here
And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be,
But I'm stuck here getting misty over you
I'm alone on a bicycle for two.

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

When I was a little bit younger
The strain I was under could make me cry.
Now I’m a little bit older,
A little bit bolder,
Never so shy

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

California is a great big nation of one
They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone

Volume Two (2010)

Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart

Volume Two (2010)

Old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

Hair got caught in the sunlight darling
But I just wasted the day.
I knew it would happen this way.

Volume Two (2010)

Change is hard, I should know.
I should know.

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”

Can't get up in the morning lately
and I'm just sunk in a dream
I'm always the ship in the stream

Volume Two (2010)

I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me
I don't wanna' wonder whether you care

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

I like to learn things slow
I like learning alot
I like to get it all again and in the end
You know you get what you got

Volume Two (2010)

My eyes are so bleary
I guess I'm young but I feel so weary
I've tried to express it
But I think its all a bore
Its at the heart of me,
A very part of me

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zooey Deschanel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.