Top 120 Rashida Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Rashida Jones

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

— Rashida Jones

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

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4. “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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5. “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.”

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6. “I am definitively qualitative about work.”

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.”

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10. “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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11. “You can never stop discovering music.”

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

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13. “Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies.”

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14. “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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15. “I’m generally a pretty friendly person.”

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16. “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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17. “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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18. “If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.”

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19. “Music is hugely important to me.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “The minute you feel like there’s nothing left to learn, whether it’s with your career or life, you’re done.”

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

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24. “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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25. “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.”

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26. “Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.”

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27. “There’s room for everything in everybody.”

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28. “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!”

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29. “I was a chubby, chubby little tub-tub. At the times when it mattered: twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. I’m so happy I was. If you’re beautiful young, you really miss out on developing parts of yourself.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, “Is this worth all my fighting?””

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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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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37. “Timing is everything with relationships.”

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38. “Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.”

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39. “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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40. “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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41. “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.”

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42. “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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43. “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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44. “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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45. “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.”

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46. “I don’t like expectations.”

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47. “With acting, the stark reality for women is that it’s nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress. Either you’re fighting your age, or you’re having to own it in a way that feels inelegant, or you’re Meryl Streep and you’re an angel from God.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.”

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