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.
JESSICA ALBAThe time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it.
More Jessica Alba Quotes
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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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You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
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Honor has to say “please” and “thank you.” Manners are really important.
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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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I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.
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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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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
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Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.
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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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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.
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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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Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.
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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you’ve done or didn’t do in your relationship – and it’s just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.
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