Rashida Jones Quotes

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I'd built a great career over eight years, but it was a wake-up call. All too often we ignore those, forget that we don't know how long we're here for and that we need to make the most of every moment.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I shouldn't still be working out how to be misanthropic singleton comic when I'm 60. I should have moved on by then.

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'