Rashida Quotes & Sayings

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday. — Rashida Jones

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

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. — 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

I'm terrified of performing live. — Rashida Jones

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

I love going to weddings. — 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 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. — Rashida Jones

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. — 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 like to be in a European city where I can speak my language. — 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

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

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. — 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

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

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

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done. — 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

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

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air! — Peter Travers

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of. — 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 can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough. — 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

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

Women have been interesting forever. — Rashida Jones

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine. — Rashida Jones

Music is hugely important to me. — 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

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

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

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. — 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

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

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood. — Rashida Jones

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

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

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

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

Music breaks my heart constantly. — 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 can fall asleep anywhere. — 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 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. — 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

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

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. — Rashida Jones

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

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

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

I love working with Rashida Jones. We just have so much fun together. — Brad Goreski

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

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

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

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

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. — 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

Blessings can be in disguise, so pay attention! — Really Rashida

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 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

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

Spy plots are hard, really hard. — Rashida Jones

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Geeks are finally having their day. — Rashida Jones