Jennifer Garner Quotes

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Your happiness is your own responsibility.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.

My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

After the kids are asleep you... well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

I do all my own stunts!

I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I've found out that I cannot pass up pizza without having some. I just can't! my kids have a lot of pizza. I can't go to a kid's birthday party without having a slice.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.