Jennifer Garner Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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 have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.

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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 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.

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• 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.

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Jennifer Garner (63)

Birth:	17th April, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Producer

About

Jennifer Anne Garner was born in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an American actress and producer. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater performance from Denison University in 1994. She works frequently as an activist for early childhood education and is a board member of Save the Children. She is also an advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns among children of celebrities. Her role in several films include: Washington Square, Stealing Time, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil, 13 Going on 30, Elektra, The Kingdom, Juno, Valentine's Day, Butter (also producer), Draft Day, Miracles from Heaven, Mother's Day, and The Tribes of Palos Verdes. Her role in television include: Harvest of Fire (TV movie), Rose Hill (TV movie), Significant Others (TV series), Time of Your Life (TV series), and Alias (TV series, Won- a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award, Nominations- four Emmy Awards).

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