Top 60 Jennifer Garner Quotes

The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day – I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don’t even know how it got started because if you ask me, ‘Are you crafty?’ I would say, ‘No…’ but it’s something that we just do.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

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.

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.

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

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

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

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

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.

Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It’s ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it’s something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don’t mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it’s not the only way to go.

I wash my face at night for sure. If I’ve had makeup, on I wash it twice. And now that I’m old, I use the Rapid Repair moisturizer, which has all the stuff in it – retinol, alpha, whatever, all of it. And I do use a Neutrogena eye cream, which I didn’t used to.

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.

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 do all my own stunts!

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.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad, what more do you need?

When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I’m lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what’s out there and see what’s happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you’re 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

I am not pregnant, but I’ve had three kids, and there is a ‘bump.’ From now on, ladies, I will have a ‘bump,’ and it will be my ‘baby bump,’ and let’s just all settle in and get used to it; it’s not going anywhere.

I don’t know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren’t necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

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

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

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.

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

And now, I still really don’t care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.

I do like having my ears pierced, because there’s a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they’re a lot more comfortable to wear – Sometimes I completely forget I’ve got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.

Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.

I’ve loved football since I was in the marching band of junior high and high school and was the water girl for my high school’s team.

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.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn’t some heroic thing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing or difficult – especially that question of how you find a balance.

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 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.

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too – there’s so much criticism out there!

I usually don’t wear makeup, and if I do, it’s later in the day if I have to get my act together for work for some reason.

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

When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.

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

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

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

I’m a pretty hard worker.

It’s about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner… I live my life at these two extremes. I’m either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

I miss West Virginia very much.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

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.

I’m still really close with everyone at home and their parents – and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don’t take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it’s like, ‘Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let’s sit in the hair chair together!’ We’re lonely women.

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.

People have pain – they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

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.

I remember, my mom didn’t have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we’d just go down to the neighbors’ and she’d give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren’t any latchkey kids.

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.

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

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.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

I feel lucky, though, because even when ‘Alias’ was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I’ve never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it’s been really fun to be bad.

I never use powder unless I’m about to be in front of a camera. I don’t need that matte, crunchy feeling.

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.