Quotes from Jennifer Aniston

I was always the mediator.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I just stay fit and in shape.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

You train your man to do nothing.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

Breakfast is usually a shake, because I didn't like eating in the morning. But I know it's a healthy thing, so I try to get something in my body.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.