Quotes from Jennifer Garner

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.

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.

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.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

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.

There's just nothing like sharing the spotlight or anything else with your sisters and your mom. It's always fun for me to get my sisters dolled up and my mom.

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

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

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.

Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together and go for a boot cut, please? Ladies?

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don't even know how it got started because if you ask me, 'Are you crafty?' I would say, 'No...' but it's something that we just do.

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.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

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.

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.

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.

I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.

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.

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.

I do all my own stunts!