Jennifer Garner Quotes

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Jennifer Garner

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 17, 1972

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?

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My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm so thrilled to get to raise my kids in the environment that they are in. I think it's easy just to imagine that all these kids are spoiled and entitled. Part of what makes me be strong with my kids is the fact that I'm surrounded by other really firm strong moms.

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

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There's rarely a big hat. I think all those things are great, but I'm boring in that I just use sunscreen every day. I don't mess around. I put it on first thing. I have it on now, and I'm sitting inside.

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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.

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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.

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I miss West Virginia very much.

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I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

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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.

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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.

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