Latest Jessica Alba Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Jessica Alba

  Thinking, Feel Good, Okay

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Jessica Alba

  Source: ew.com

• 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.

  Jessica Alba

  Kids, Rejection, Entrepreneur

  Source: ew.com

• I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.

  Jessica Alba

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: ew.com

• When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

  Jessica Alba

  Diversity, Different, Different Place

  Source: ew.com

• We all have a mission and a purpose across all of our different industries that we're in, and you can see that in every entrepreneur, certainly the ones that get through and get chosen. And I think that's ultimately what technology is here to do, is to enhance our lives and make it better.

  Jessica Alba

  Technology, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: ew.com

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

  Jessica Alba

  Self, Self Conscious, Embrace

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

  Jessica Alba

  Golf, Focus, Mind

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

  Jessica Alba

  School, France, Culinary

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.

  Jessica Alba

  Dinner, Hours, Five

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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

  Jessica Alba

  Done, Stuff, Opinion

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.

  Jessica Alba

  Running, Producers, Wanted

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• Some [actors] are really a pain in the ass today. I held out on getting an assistant forever because I didn't want to seem demanding... or like a pain in the ass. I didn't want someone working for me to hate me.

  Jessica Alba

  Pain, Hate, Forever

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• When I was young, I loved black men.

  Jessica Alba

  Men, Black, Young

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I really like older British guys - I don't think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying "I love you" or "You hurt me" or emotional stuff like that.

  Jessica Alba

  Hurt, Love You, Emotional

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

  Jessica Alba

  Guy, Brain, Bigs

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• People are unbelievably giving and caring and understanding of me because of what I do for a living and because actors tend to get their asses kissed everywhere they go, so I can be extra-understanding in a relationship.

  Jessica Alba

  Caring, People, Giving

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I could have a one-night stand, and I'm the kind of girl who looks over in the morning and is like, Do you really have to be here? I don't need to cuddle and do all that stuff because I know what it is and I don't try to make it more. I feel like a lot of women try to make it into more, so they don't feel so bad about just wanting to have sex.

  Jessica Alba

  Girl, Morning, Sex

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I don't really have a problem with just wanting sex. Never have. Even when I was a virgin and wanted to marry the first guy who I slept with, I never passed any judgments about that. But now I'm done [with dating around].

  Jessica Alba

  Sex, Dating, Guy

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

  Jessica Alba

  Actors, Occupation, Difficult

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• Actors are pulled in so many different directions that unless you both are absolutely into it through thick and thin and completely sure about each other, it's just hard. I've decided I'll never date an actor again.

  Jessica Alba

  Different, Actors, Thick And Thin

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.

  Jessica Alba

  Guy

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I didn't really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.

  Jessica Alba

  Guy, Mets, Exes

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

• I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Girlfriend, Kids

  "Hollywood Honey". www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.