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.
JESSICA ALBAWay too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don’t need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
More Jessica Alba Quotes
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I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
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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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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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Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
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I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn’t want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.
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I don’t need to be famous. I’m not that ambitious. At this point, if I’m not sucked in, I’m never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It’s not that deep.
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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 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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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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I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.
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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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I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.
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I’ve got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out.
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No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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I’m not one of those women with a really thin body. I have body fat.
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