Best quotes by Rashida Jones

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have no issues with my identity.

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

I totally believe in romance and love and all that.

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.

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

I can fall asleep anywhere.

I don't like expectations.

Timing is everything with relationships.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Music breaks my heart constantly.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

You can never stop discovering music.

There's room for everything in everybody.

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.

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.'

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

I am definitively qualitative about work.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.