Jennifer Garner Quotes

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

Jennifer Garner

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• I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Performance
  • Production
  • Opposite

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Difficult
  • Parent
  • No Matter What

• I'm here to tell you I do [have a baby bump]. I am not pregnant, but I have had three kids and there is a bump.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Kids
  • Bump
  • Not Pregnant

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Sisters
  • Saxophone
  • Ballet School

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

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Rehearsal
  • Ballet Dancer
  • Musical Theater

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Dressed

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Surprised
  • Marry
  • Ring

• You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Bible
  • Script
  • Stick

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Universe
  • Actors
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Moments
  • Voice
  • Responsible

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Pizza
  • Slice
  • Kid's Birthday

• I do all my own stunts!

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • I Do
  • Stunts

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Model
  • Patient
  • Compliment

• 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. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Marriage
  • Picture
  • Changing

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Kids
  • Ladies
  • Not Pregnant

• My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Responsibility
  • Worker
  • My Mom

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • School
  • I Remember
  • Neighbors

• I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Daughters

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

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Don't Think
  • Perfectionist
  • Unlikable

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Actress

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Lives
  • Direction
  • Tragic

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Forget
  • Choice
  • Wearing

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Job
  • Wishes
  • My Mom

• I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Argue
  • I Don't Like
  • Conflict-averse