Rashida Jones Quotes & Sayings

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult. — Rashida Jones

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

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

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics. — Rashida Jones

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear. — Rashida Jones

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally. — Rashida Jones

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. — Rashida Jones

Timing is everything with relationships. — Rashida Jones

I love being part of an ensemble. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure. — Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

Once, a friend's mom said to me when I was very young 'You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. I think this is trueit's like putting money into a stock that's going down. Put your money, put your effort, invest in your brain and talent which will appreciate and get better as you get older. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work. — Rashida Jones

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?" — Rashida Jones

You can never stop discovering music. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

With any television series you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite. — Rashida Jones

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily. — Rashida Jones

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic. — Rashida Jones

I am definitively qualitative about work. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough. — Rashida Jones

Music is hugely important to me. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

I can fall asleep anywhere. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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.' — Rashida Jones

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

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy. — Rashida Jones

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing. — Rashida Jones

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped. — Rashida Jones

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind. — Rashida Jones

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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.' — Rashida Jones

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy. — Rashida Jones

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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! — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually. — Rashida Jones

I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands. — Rashida Jones

Spy plots are hard, really hard. — Rashida Jones

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

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — Rashida Jones

I think I'm a natural appreciator of comedy. I was definitely not the girl in junior high that all the guys wanted to date. They wanted to date my friends - which was great, because I had to be funny. — Rashida Jones

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh. — Rashida Jones

I totally believe in romance and love and all that. — Rashida Jones

Women have been interesting forever. — Rashida Jones

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

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

Geeks are finally having their day. — Rashida Jones

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

There's room for everything in everybody. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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. — Rashida Jones

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!' — Rashida Jones

I'm generally a pretty friendly person. — Rashida Jones

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. — Rashida Jones

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