Zooey Deschanel Quotes

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

My body is my best asset.

I would rather be nuts than unattractive.