Top 70 Jennifer Garner Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Happiness is your own responsibility.”

— Jennifer Garner

2. “Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.”

— Jennifer Garner

3. “Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.”

— Jennifer Garner

4. “My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.”

— Jennifer Garner

5. “You stick to the script, the script is Bible.”

— Jennifer Garner

6. “I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It’s not a boring way to describe me.”

— Jennifer Garner

7. “My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.”

— Jennifer Garner

8. “The outside world can be very tough.”

— Jennifer Garner

9. “My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, ‘Happiness is your own responsibility.’ That’s probably what I quote from her and live by the most.”

— Jennifer Garner

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10. “And now, I still really don’t care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.”

— Jennifer Garner

11. “I’m still conflict-averse. I don’t like to argue.”

— Jennifer Garner

12. “In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.”

— Jennifer Garner

13. “I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.”

— Jennifer Garner

14. “I do all my own stunts!”

— Jennifer Garner

15. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

16. “I am not pregnant, but I’ve had three kids, and there is a ‘bump.’ From now on, ladies, I will have a ‘bump’ and it will be my ‘baby bump,’ and let’s just all settle in and get used to it. It’s not going anywhere.”

— Jennifer Garner

17. “I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.”

— Jennifer Garner

18. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

19. “I do like having my ears pierced, because there’s a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they’re a lot more comfortable to wear – Sometimes I completely forget I’ve got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.”

— Jennifer Garner

20. “I have this internal battle between, 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.”

— Jennifer Garner

21. “My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.”

— Jennifer Garner

22. “I’ve made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I’m determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.”

— Jennifer Garner

23. “I hoped, hoped, that maybe I’d be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.”

— Jennifer Garner

24. “I don’t think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.”

— Jennifer Garner

25. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

26. “I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.”

— Jennifer Garner

27. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

28. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

29. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

30. “My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma – like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place – and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.”

— Jennifer Garner

31. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

32. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

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33. “My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you’re in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don’t fix.”

— Jennifer Garner

34. “I’ve always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It’s a joy to make people laugh, but it’s not as fun as laughing yourself.”

— Jennifer Garner

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35. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

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36. “I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.”

— Jennifer Garner

37. “I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.”

— Jennifer Garner

38. “I don’t understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.”

— Jennifer Garner

39. “I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.”

— Jennifer Garner

40. “I mean, the Men in Hollywood event is every day. It’s called Hollywood.”

— Jennifer Garner

41. “It’s not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?”

— Jennifer Garner

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42. “You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.”

— Jennifer Garner

43. “I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we’re willing to admit even to ourselves.”

— Jennifer Garner

44. “My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

— Jennifer Garner

45. “I’m privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

— Jennifer Garner

46. “You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it’s cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?”

— Jennifer Garner

47. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

48. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

49. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner

50. “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.”

— Jennifer Garner