Rashida Jones
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'm terrified of performing live.
I have no issues with my identity.
Music breaks my heart constantly.
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.
Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.
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 know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.
I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.
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'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.
Timing is everything with relationships.
Spy plots are hard, really hard.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
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.
People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.
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.
Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.
Geeks are finally having their day.
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.
You can never stop discovering music.
I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.
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.
It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.
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.
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
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 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.
My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
Music is hugely important to me.
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 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.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
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!'
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.
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.
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.
There's no better way to process pain than to write.
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 like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.
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.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
I love being part of an ensemble.