Best 132 quotes of Rashida Jones on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

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.

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 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 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 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.'

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 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.

I like to wear what make me feel great, which can mean the color, or that the fit's right, or that it's just an interesting piece of clothing. I like to change it up.

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

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

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

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

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'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.

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.