Jennifer Garner Quotes

(On having her ears pierced in 2006 for her Oscars earrings) "A couple of months before the ceremony, I went to pick out the jewelry I`d be wearing on the night. I picked out the diamond cuff and the hair clip, and then they showed me the most gorgeous pair of earrings I`d ever seen. It wasn`t until I came to try them on that I realized they`d forgotten I didn`t have pierced ears. They could see how much I loved them, and how disappointed I was that I couldn`t wear them, so they said that, if I really wanted to, they could pierce my ears for me there and then. That would give them enough time to heal before the ceremony, and I could then wear the earrings. And I really did want to wear those earrings, so I said `OK`, and they pierced my ears for me before I left the boutique. It felt a bit odd to have them done, although I did have them pierced for a couple of weeks a few years back for a movie I was in, but it was worth it because I knew it meant I`d be wearing those fabulous earrings to the ceremony."

(on "Alias" (2001) co-star Carl Lumbly.) We looked him up on IMDb, and we just cracked up - his resumé goes on and on. He was even on "Cagney & Lacey" (1982).

(on being recognized) I never get recognized! I`ll be with my husband (actor Scott Foley from "Felicity" (1998)) and people will think I`m his manager, and they`ll start giving me their business cards.

(on winning a Golden Globe) My husband was as flabbergasted as I was. I think he almost flew out of his skin, he was so surprised and excited. He is just the most supportive and proud friend. My family is just beyond out-of-control excited.

Two of my mom`s most oft-repeated mom-isms are: "Happiness is your own responsibility" and "Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning." Both are true.

(quoted in Playboy, 4/02) There`s something so interesting about the combination of vulnerability and being completely in control at the same time. Women should run everything - it`s about time.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

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?

(opn winning a Golden Globe) My husband was as flabbergasted as I was. I think he almost flew out of his skin, he was so surprised and excited. He is just the most supportive and proud friend. My family is just beyond out-of-control excited.

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 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.

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`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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Elektra is larger than life and wears her sexuality on her sleeve. So I was wearing clothes that were 100 per cent sexy. And just giving in to that.

(Explaining why she had her ears re-pierced in early 2009) My sister Melissa had been thinking about getting her ears pierced for a while, but was a bit nervous about having them done - She`d never had them done even though she`s thirty-nine, and was worried about it hurting. My other sister, Susannah, has had her ears pierced since she was fourteen, and I`d had mine done a couple of times in the past, but let them grow over again both times. We both told her she`d nothing to worry about and it didn`t hurt at all, so she said she`d trust us and get them done - but only if I went with her and got mine done too. So she watched me get my ears pierced, and then she finally got hers done too.

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. 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. For me, they'll always be something I wear occasionally to complete a special outfit, or for a part in a movie.

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.

You see pictures and you see this harried woman in jeans and sneakers, running around and just lucky if I get a shower, but it's pretty much the same as every other mom out there. You know, I can't dress up every day, it's just not in my nature. Even if I own the clothes, which by the way I do, I look at them and think 'I can't be a mom in those clothes,' they just don't suit me.

I'm sure that everyone else there must have thought it was all some big set-up and that I was in on the trick, but I really wasn't. I was genuinely surprised when he asked if I'd get up and join him on stage, and I was a bit reluctant at first, because I was a bit worried about what people would think. And I thought I'd just be helping out with a card trick or something like that, so I was really shocked when he said he was going to saw me in half! I've no idea how he did it - All I know is that I didn't feel a thing, but the saw definitely started out above me and ended up beneath me, and I could hear and feel the vibration as it cut through the wood in the frame he put around my waist.

I do think that it's important for yourself every now and then to put on some makeup, blow out your hair, put in some nice earrings, and get dressed up just for the heck of it and walk around as a reminder that you're as beautiful to yourself as you are to your kids.