Rashida Jones quotes:

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  • Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  • In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

  • I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  • Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

  • In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.

  • In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

  • My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

  • I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

  • My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

  • I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

  • It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

  • Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

  • In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

  • I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

  • I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

  • My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

  • Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

  • In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

  • My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

  • There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

  • I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

  • My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  • I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

  • My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

  • I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

  • I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

  • In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

  • As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

  • Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.

  • Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

  • I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

  • I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

  • I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

  • Music breaks my heart constantly.

  • I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

  • I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

  • I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

  • I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

  • Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

  • I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

  • I totally believe in romance and love and all that.

  • I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

  • I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

  • Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.

  • I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

  • It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

  • I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.

  • I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

  • There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

  • I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

  • I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

  • I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.

  • There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one of my biggest faults as a person, and something that I've had to work really hard on: believing in this idea that the universe will decide for me. The universe is not going to decide in your favor.

  • People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

  • I'm terrified of performing live.

  • Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.

  • Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

  • You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

  • With acting, the stark reality for women is that it's nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress. Either you're fighting your age, or you're having to own it in a way that feels inelegant, or you're Meryl Streep and you're an angel from God.

  • For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

  • I am definitively qualitative about work.

  • You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

  • When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"

  • Timing is everything with relationships.

  • You can love somebody and it can change your life but it doesn't mean that you're necessarily right to be together forever, but that love will change your life forever. And that's okay.

  • Spy plots are hard, really hard.

  • I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

  • Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.

  • I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

  • I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

  • Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

  • Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

  • To me, it's really easy to feel glamorous and beautiful with red lips. It's great because you don't have to do anything else. I don't have to do anything to my face. I can have cleanly washed hair and if I just put on like a matte red lip, it just makes everything seem special.

  • You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

  • I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

  • I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.

  • Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

  • People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

  • Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

  • I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

  • People are very nice to me, and they've been nice as my career has gotten better and I've gotten more jobs. But the reality is that if I decided tomorrow that I didn't want to act anymore, it's not like people are going to be like, 'Please, come back!'

  • It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

  • I can fall asleep anywhere.

  • A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

  • I have no issues with my identity.

  • There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

  • I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

  • Auditioning is the worst.

  • Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

  • Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

  • Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I truly believe that women haven't fully tapped into their potential as a market.

  • Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

  • For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

  • For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

  • Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

  • I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.

  • I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

  • I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

  • I don't like expectations.

  • I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

  • I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

  • I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

  • I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

  • I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

  • I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

  • I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

  • I have a lot of girlfriends, but there's something that's so easy for me about hanging out with guys. It's fun, because I feel like they accept me right back, which is really nice.

  • I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

  • I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

  • I like to wear what make me feel great, which can mean the color, or that the fit's right, or that it's just an interesting piece of clothing. I like to change it up.

  • I love being part of an ensemble.

  • I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

  • I love going to weddings.

  • I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

  • I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

  • I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

  • I realize my need to be liked or my need for strangers to rate me well, even with their words and their thoughts, I'm not alone in that, and the whole thing is set up culturally so we feel that way.

  • I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.

  • I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.

  • I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

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