Rashida Jones

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

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 probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

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.

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.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

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.

People are very nice to me, and they've been nice as my career has gotten better and I've gotten more jobs. But the reality is that if I decided tomorrow that I didn't want to act anymore, it's not like people are going to be like, 'Please, come back!'

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.

Music is hugely important to me.

You can never stop discovering music.

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.

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.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.