You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
JESSICA ALBASome [actors] are really a pain in the ass today. I held out on getting an assistant forever because I didn’t want to seem demanding… or like a pain in the ass. I didn’t want someone working for me to hate me.
More Jessica Alba Quotes
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Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
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It’s not always so great to be objectified, but I don’t feel I have much of a choice right now. I’m young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.
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I don’t think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won’t coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.
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There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior.
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I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age – I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.
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I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.
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I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.
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The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors.
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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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I can’t tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that’s what I call a vacation.
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Sometimes I don’t like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I’m healthy now.
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It feels like I’m starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
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Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you’ll be at whatever you want to do.
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It’s been liberating to be able to play someone who’s a bada– or promiscuous, because that’s the opposite of who I am … It’s like a drug.
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I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.
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When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we’re not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.
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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.
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The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.
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The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.
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My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
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Good actors never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.
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I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.
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Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.
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No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
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