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Honor has to say “please” and “thank you.” Manners are really important.

Jessica Alba

I love acting because it’s this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what’s possible.
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Act Dreams Fantasy Life Limitation Love Myself Possible Realization Space
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts, it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.
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Acceptance Culture Ghost People Talk
No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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Hard Time Language Oneself Talk
My approach to acting now is so different — I’m fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision — now, I don’t care.
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Act Approach Care Children Decision Different Identity Lose Myself
You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
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Actor Shape Size Success Yourself
I think people couldn’t really put me in [one race]. I wasn’t Mexican, I wasn’t white, I wasn’t black, I wasn’t Asian… I wasn’t anything, and I didn’t really fit into anybody’s group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.
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Ethnicity Family Father Myself Thinking
The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.
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Enough Power Secret
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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Better Experience Life Passion Yourself
Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they’re attacking you, then it’s easier to deal with.
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Attack Best Deal Parents Yourself
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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Believe Black Group Hard Love Thinking Tough Truth White
I get all these screenplays that start ‘Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts’. I don’t think this is happening to Natalie Portman.
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Myself Naked Shower Start Thinking
I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.
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Aware Care Fear Myself People Risk
When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.
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Energy Feeling Good Myself Work
Some [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.
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Assistant Demand Forever Hate Myself Pain
I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.
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Cook Myself School Time
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.
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Clue Confidence Theory Yourself
I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It’s nice to do that.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Nice Woman
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.
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Conscious Embrace Yourself
My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you’re doing.
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Complete Different Focus Mindset Place Pure Yourself
Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
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Compromise Evolution Love Patience Work
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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Director Myself Time Work Worth
I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
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Kiss Man Myself Thinking
I’ve been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I’ve never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.
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Brand Creation Flaw Make Up Professional
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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Drink Home Liberal Myself Parents Young
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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Acceptance Body Fact Focus Health Myself Self Love
I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.
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Date Hard Man Myself
I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
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Fame Feeling Myself People Weight

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