Zooey Deschanel Quotes

There's not a lot of flash about me.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

I'm not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.

Those who know me know I'm not a person who has a flashy lifestyle.

I am a humble person.

I'm not a showy kind of player.

I've never wished for people to recognise me or anything.

I don't look at myself and think I'm that special.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

I'm much too modest a person.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.