Jessica Alba Quotes

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many times where we have the space to sit and reflect and really understand the depth of what it took and the grit that we had to have to get to where we are.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

All the rejection that I've been through only made me stronger, and it's part of being an entrepreneur. You kind of have to take the kid gloves off and let them feel it because it's not going to be the first time that someone's going to say "no" or close a door in your face. You're going to have to figure out how to burst through it.

I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.

I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

My approach to wellbeing is to not be so critical and so hard on myself, and also to not think that I have to conform to other people's ideas of beauty, and to be okay with what made me feel good. I think it took me a while to get there.

I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.