Rashida Jones

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.

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.

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

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

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.

I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.