Rashida Jones Quotes

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

It's the tabloids, with their intense commercial need to get scoops to bring in readers, that run a regime of fear, where reporters are bullied, shouted at. That's where things go wrong.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

I never read the tabloids.

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.