Quotes by Jennifer Garner

• 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.
• 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.
• My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
• 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.
• And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
• 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?
• 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 love being physical and acting at the same time.
• 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.
• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
• I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
• 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.
• Never underestimate the power of a kind word or a small act of kindness - they have the ability to change someone's day, or even their life.
• Wrinkles mean you've smiled a lot.
• If life gives you lemons, just add tequila!
• Don't regret the past, just learn from it
• Life is too short for fake butter or fake people