Zitat des Tages von Jennifer Garner:
We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
I usually don't wear makeup, and if I do, it's later in the day if I have to get my act together for work for some reason.
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
I think that it's not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else's, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it's really not that.
There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
I love being physical and acting at the same time.
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
The outside world can be very tough.
I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.
I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gone totally bonkers. I didn't even know about dermatologists until I had weaned my first baby, and my skin was so damaged. It was just beyond. And then, I realized, there's a whole doctor who can help you with this.
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
I've loved football since I was in the marching band of junior high and high school and was the water girl for my high school's team.
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.
I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.
I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.
The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day - I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.
You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.
My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.
I'm a pretty hard worker.
But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.
I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.
I wash my face at night for sure. If I've had makeup, on I wash it twice. And now that I'm old, I use the Rapid Repair moisturizer, which has all the stuff in it - retinol, alpha, whatever, all of it. And I do use a Neutrogena eye cream, which I didn't used to.