Rashida Jones

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

“Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.”

“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.”

“To me, it's really easy to feel glamorous and beautiful with red lips. It's great because you don't have to do anything else. I don't have to do anything to my face. I can have cleanly washed hair and if I just put on like a matte red lip, it just makes everything seem special.”

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

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

“I have no issues with my identity.”

“I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.”

“I am definitively qualitative about work.”

“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 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 love being part of an ensemble.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.”

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

“Auditioning is the worst.”

“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.”