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. – Jennifer Garner
You’re supposed to look a certain way when you’re a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don’t mesh very well. – Jennifer Garner
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
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
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
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
No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I’m very grateful. – Jennifer Garner
I wasn’t a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted. – Jennifer Garner
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. – Jennifer Garner
I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it’s like, ‘Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let’s sit in the hair chair together!’ We’re lonely women. – Jennifer Garner
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
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
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. – Jennifer Garner
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. – Jennifer Garner
I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I’m a bridesmaid, which I’ve been lucky enough to be several times. – Jennifer Garner
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
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. – Jennifer Garner
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
I remember, my mom didn’t have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we’d just go down to the neighbors’ and she’d give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren’t any latchkey kids. – Jennifer Garner
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
I like watching Tom Brady, not just because he’s handsome – I get handsome; I understand handsome – but he’s a fine leader, he’s a great quarterback, and I like the team. I’m not going to apologize for that. – 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. – Jennifer Garner
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
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
