Rashida Jones Quotes

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

I think people can't say anymore, 'Celebrities should keep their political opinions to themselves,' because we elected a reality TV star, so I think that's off limits.

I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

In 2003, I wrote a New York Times best-seller called 'Shut Up & Sing,' in which I criticized celebrities like the Dixie Chicks & Barbra Streisand who were trashing then-President George W. Bush. I have used a variation of that title for more than 15 years to respond to performers who sound off on politics.

The reason why we have so many stars campaigning for politics is that when we senior artistes go to speak to people, they at least listen to some extent.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political aims. The problem is that politics is about the accretion of power, and it's very difficult not to get giddy with power.

You should never ask actors about politics.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!

I do not think that politics has much to do with celebrity.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

Rock the Vote

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

I never had a political thought in my life until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign.

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.