Rashida jones quotes

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

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.

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

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. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.

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.

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

I have no issues with my identity.

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.

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!"

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

I love going to weddings.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Music is hugely important to me.

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.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

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

Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm terrified of performing live.

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.'

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

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

I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. I do think because women are so clever and flexible and such good communicators, it been hard for men to evolve and keep up. I think we could do a little better to help them out.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

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

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

With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - 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.

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.

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

I don't like expectations.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

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

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

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 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.

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 totally believe in romance and love and all that.

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.

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.

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

You can never stop discovering music.

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.

Sometimes I look at where we've come to, and how much technology and advancement there is, and I can't believe that we're not this perfectly balanced, beautiful, peaceful society. I'm shocked that we're so deeply polarized, that there are people who want progress and they feel guilty for wanting progress, because it somehow seems un-American, because being American means staying ignorant and going backward.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

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

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.

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

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

There's room for everything in everybody.

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

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

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Music breaks my heart constantly.

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.

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

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

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'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.

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

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 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!

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

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

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.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

I really like the relaxed glamour of the 70s.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

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

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.

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

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

I've never been in a writer's room.

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

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

Timing is everything with relationships.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

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 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.'

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.

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.

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

I love being part of an ensemble.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Auditioning is the worst.

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.