Rashida Jones Quotes

One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.