Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones is an American actress, comic book author, film producer, singer, and screenwriter. She is known for playing Ann Perkins on NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation, Louisa Fenn on Fox's Boston Public, and Karen Filippelli on The Office. She has had film roles in I Love You, Man, Our Idiot Brother, The Social Network, The Muppets, and Celeste and Jesse Forever, for which she wrote the screenplay. She now plays the lead role in the TBS comedy series,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 February 1976
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.
I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.
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.
Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.
Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.
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.
There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
Spy plots are hard, really hard.
I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.
I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.