Top 80 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

2. “Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

3. “Don’t trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

4. “Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that’s the trap.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

5. “Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

6. “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

7. “My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

8. “Will and I are yin and yang. He’s all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I’m all earth. I’m here to ground him, and he’s here to help me fly.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

9. “I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I’ve had enough experience to know that that’s how it goes down. There’s no going around it.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

10. “I’m extremely ambitious. I don’t know why people are afraid to say that. I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

11. “Women, you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

12. “We don’t back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

13. “How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

14. “You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It’s all about love. You know, how I’m loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

15. “What you’re willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love – at least it is for me.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

16. “I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn’t see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m going to make you shine, girl.’”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

17. “I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

18. “Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

19. “It’s very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

20. “I can’t cook! It’s genetic. My grandmother can’t cook, my mother can’t cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

21. “It’s not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

22. “Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else’s mind. When you’re OK, you don’t need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

23. “I don’t get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I’m not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it’s paralyzing.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

24. “People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn’t give two hooty-hoots about Valentine’s Day. Just because he doesn’t give you a valentine doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you!”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

25. “You can be committed to somebody because of ego: ‘I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I’m just going to do it.’ Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

26. “I’m the glue that keeps it all together. I’m the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

27. “Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

28. “I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’ They said I was too short to play the part.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

29. “I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

30. “My music is like my freedom space.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

31. “Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

32. “I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage – not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

33. “I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

34. “Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I’m telling you, that’s one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

35. “You’ve got to be happy in your own skin.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

36. “If I had my way, I’d wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

37. “I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

38. “Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband’s head pop off!”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

39. “I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

40. “Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I’ll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage and feel. He makes love like he’s in touch with himself, who he is. And he’s a very sensual, incredible lovemaker.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

41. “When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

42. “I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn’t set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don’t want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

43. “At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I’ve never compromised my integrity to get what I have.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

44. “I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

45. “I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

46. “As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It’s all about love.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

47. “Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

48. “I like a lot of metal music. So that’s really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

49. “I don’t have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that’s not my job.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith

50. “When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, ‘You are going to college.’ And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.”

— Jada Pinkett Smith