Rashida Jones famous quotes

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies
-- Rashida Jones

#Remedy

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

#Character #People #Stories

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Years #Issues #People

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

#School #Law #Judging

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

#Disappointment #Heartache #Devastation

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Smile #Beauty #Beautiful

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

#Years #Giving #Perfect

You can never stop discovering music.
-- Rashida Jones

#Discovering

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

#Glamour #Relaxed

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

#Mom #My Mom #Regimes

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

#Thinking #Guy #Way

I love being part of an ensemble.
-- Rashida Jones

#Ensemble

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

#Mistake #Thinking #Guy

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

#Friendly #Persons #Friendly Person

I'm terrified of performing live.
-- Rashida Jones

#Performing #Performing Live

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

#Writing #Romantic Love #Thinking

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

#Character

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

#Play #Guy #Okay

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

#Caring #Thinking #People

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

#Believe #Feminist #Advancement

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

#Heart #Broken #Adorable

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

#People #Freak #Kind

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

#People #Want #Surround

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

#Mean #First Love #Who I Am

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Letting Go #Meaningful #Thinking

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

#Junior High #Potatoes #Nicknames

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

#Community #Black #Want

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

#Appreciation #Parent #Levels

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

#Girl #Letting Go #Thinking

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

#Goal #Body #Killing

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

#Mean #Situation #Grim

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

#Girl #Real #Littles

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

#Pain #Laughter #Thinking

Auditioning is the worst.
-- Rashida Jones

#Worst

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

#Powerful #Men #Thinking

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

#Sports #Dating #Wells

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

#Monogamy #Skepticism

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

#Band #Way #Musician

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

#Thinking #Leaving #Fairytale

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

#Thinking #Dating #Exes

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

#School #Years #Personality

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

#Integrity #Goal #Pet

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

#Jobs #Nice #Reality

I love going to weddings.
-- Rashida Jones

#Wedding

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

#Baby #Want

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

#Mom #Thinking #Appreciate

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

#People #Friendly #Pieces

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Clever #Believe #Men

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

#Perception #Care #Talent

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

#Mean #Forever #Together

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

#Brother #Eye #Dark

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

#Believe #Enough #Persuasive

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

#Girlfriend #Wife #Dependable

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

#Reflection #Way

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

#Sexy #Artist #Clothes

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

#Heart #Broken #People

I am definitively qualitative about work.
-- Rashida Jones

Music breaks my heart constantly.
-- Rashida Jones

#Heart #My Heart #Break

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

#Band #Catering #Feels

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

#Believe #Romance #And Love

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

#Girl #Guy #Making Friends

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

#Giving #Parent #Advice

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Girl #Guy #Lgbt

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Women #College #Jeans

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

#Stories #Way #Comedy

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

#Stars #Gay #Pops

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

#Pain #Writing #Way

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

#Responsibility #Able #Dresses

Spy plots are hard, really hard.
-- Rashida Jones

#Spy #Plot

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

#People #Comic #Comic Con

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

#Reading #Games #Piano

Music is hugely important to me.
-- Rashida Jones

#Important #Music Is

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

#Mom #Levels #Persons

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

#Challenges #Adults #Something New

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

#Interesting #Female #Flawed

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

#School #High School #Acting

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

#Nice #Thinking #People

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

#Political #Chocolate #Together

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 #Priorities #Want

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

#Real #Character #Imagination

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

#Beautiful #Hair #Special

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

#Character #People #Focus

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

#Jobs #Hair #Skin Color

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.
-- Rashida Jones

#Mother #Dad #Father

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

#Nice #Father #Thinking

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

#School #Office #Done

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

#College #Voice #Lots Of Friends

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

#Mom #Brother #Stars

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

#Way #Comedy #Geek

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

#Moving #Men #Thinking

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

#Dirty #Kids #Naughty

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

#Mom #Night #Tvs

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

#Lonely #Jobs #Thinking