Quotes from Rashida Jones

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.

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I love going to weddings.

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

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

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

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