Top 100 Rashida Jones Quotes
#1. 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.
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#5. You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
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#6. People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.
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#7. I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.
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#10. 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.
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#12. Fail fast. Fail often ... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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#14. It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.
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#20. Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.
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#21. There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
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#22. I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
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#25. 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.'
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#27. I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.
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#28. I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.
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#29. Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
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#30. Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
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#31. I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
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#32. I've been really lucky thus far 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.
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#46. People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.
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#47. I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.
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#51. Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
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#58. There's no better way to process pain than to write.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
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#62. In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.
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#66. My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
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#67. 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.
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#69. I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
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#70. Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
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#71. I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
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#72. I think I'm a natural appreciator of comedy. I was definitely not the girl in junior high that all the guys wanted to date. They wanted to date my friends - which was great, because I had to be funny.
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#73. I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.
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#79. 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!'
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#80. 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.
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#81. I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.
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#84. I totally believe in romance and love and all that.
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#85. I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.
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#88. I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.
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#89. It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.
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#90. 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.
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#91. It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
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#99. 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.'
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#100. There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.
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