Jessica Alba
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.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Time
I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.Collection: Famous
But I don't feel the need to be famous.Collection: Famous
You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.Collection: Cool
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
I don't like being the center of attention.
I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
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.
I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
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.
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.
I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I would have to go to 50 different places just to get my house and my kid clean.
I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.
Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.
I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.
My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.Collection: Success
Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.Collection: Passion
You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.Collection: Real
Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.Collection: Perfect
Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.Collection: Love Is
The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.Collection: Secret
I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.Collection: Beautiful
Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.Collection: Sexy
I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Writing
Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.Collection: Honor
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.Collection: Dream
I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.Collection: Selfish
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.Collection: Self
All the rejection that I've been through only made me stronger, and it's part of being an entrepreneur. You kind of have to take the kid gloves off and let them feel it because it's not going to be the first time that someone's going to say "no" or close a door in your face. You're going to have to figure out how to burst through it.Collection: Kids
My approach to wellbeing is to not be so critical and so hard on myself, and also to not think that I have to conform to other people's ideas of beauty, and to be okay with what made me feel good. I think it took me a while to get there.Collection: Thinking
I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.Collection: Girl
I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.Collection: Mom
The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.Collection: Real
I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome. Why did I not ever wear jean shorts? That's so crazy. I was so skinny. I didn't have any cellulite what was I thinking? I was more willing to wear short skirts after I had my kids. I never wore them before. Ever. I was so self-conscious. Now I'm a lot more confident in my skin - because who cares? At the end of the day, it's so much time spent on something that really doesn't matter that much.Collection: Crazy
I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture.Collection: Thinking
We all have a mission and a purpose across all of our different industries that we're in, and you can see that in every entrepreneur, certainly the ones that get through and get chosen. And I think that's ultimately what technology is here to do, is to enhance our lives and make it better.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Mom
I really like older British guys - I don't think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying "I love you" or "You hurt me" or emotional stuff like that.Collection: Hurt