Top 44 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

I’ve always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

Will and I are yin and yang. He’s all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I’m all earth. I’m here to ground him, and he’s here to help me fly.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It’s kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn’t appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn’t appreciated. It’s like, ‘What the hell do you do?’ What you do is you don’t allow anyone to dictate who you are.

Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

I don’t think it’s easy to be married to anyone.

I like a lot of metal music. So that’s really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

I’ve always told Will, ‘You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.’ Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I’m here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that’s not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

What you’re willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love – at least it is for me.

I can’t cook! It’s genetic. My grandmother can’t cook, my mother can’t cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

I just want pieces of the world.

It’s not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband’s head pop off!

When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, ‘You are going to college.’ And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.

I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

It’s not easy working with your husband, I’ll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It’s not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

I’m in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice.

I don’t think I’ve made my favorite film yet. But I loved ‘Bamboozled.’ ‘Bamboozled’ to me is off the chain. It’s definitely in the ranking. I loved ‘Bamboozled.’

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can’t wait until a person is 18 years old and say, ‘Now you have the right’. You have to start that from the gate.

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one. I’m sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids – now we’ve got a problem.

I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’ They said I was too short to play the part.

Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we’re perfect for each other.

If I had my way, I’d wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.

I might get some more animals or something, but I’m done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I’m straight.

When I believe in something, I’m very passionate. I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in ‘HawthoRNe’ was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn’t see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m going to make you shine, girl.’

Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I’m telling you, that’s one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’

Human spirit, things that aren’t tangible, fascinate me, so I’m always researching mind, spirit, soul.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that’s really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be – not the women we think they should be.

I’ve always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.