Rashida Jones Quotes

Timing is everything with relationships.

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

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 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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Music breaks my heart constantly.

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 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.

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 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.

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?"

When I see somebody sun-drenched in a shot with their espadrilles and a cup of coffee, I'm like, "Your life is amazing. It's so perfect." I get drawn into that very easily so it totally worked, because the visual style sucks you in. It makes you want that.

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.

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

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.

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

Auditioning is the worst.

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.

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

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

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 been really lucky 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.

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

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

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

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

I don't like expectations.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

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.

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

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.