Jada Pinkett Smith famous quotes

I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Believe #Energy #Littles

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Children #Husband #Men

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Stronger #Use #Tough

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Worry #Making Money

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Men #Thinking #Giving

When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing,
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Husband #Eye #Years

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Desire #Body #Care

You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Balance #Care #Firsts

Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Crazy #Voice #Rocks

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Jobs #Trying

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#People #Tangible #Able

If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Shoes #Way #Pairs

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Strong #Communication #Way

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Life #Children #Shows

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Fame #Adoration #Extremes

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Doors #Something New

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Hurt #Love You #Cheated On

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#People #Together #Able

I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Baby #Mirrors #Gossip

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Sky #Yang #Earth

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Honesty #Wife

Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Beautiful #Husband #Trying

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Crazy #Reading #World

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Soul #Mind #Tangible

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Selfish #Decision

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Care #Firsts

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Thinking #Full Life

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Decision #Important #Firsts

Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.'
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Men #Hair #Long

I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I've had enough experience to know that that's how it goes down. There's no going around it.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#The End Of The Day #Trying #Had Enough

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Success #Thinking #People

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Stars #Integrity #Years

You've got to be happy in your own skin.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Self Esteem #Skins

I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Talking #People

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Kids #Artist

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Art #People #Different

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Ego #Connections #Said

If I say to you I don't have an open marriage...and you don't trust that, well, there's nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything because at the end of the day, I'm living my life and I'm happy.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#The End Of The Day #Living My Life #Ends

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Husband #Love You #Deep Love

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Daughter #Thinking #Want

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Desire #Traps

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Children #People #Looks

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Married #Easy

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Stars #Responsibility #Levels

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#School #Degrees #World

When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Husband #Eye #Years

My music is like my freedom space.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Space #Music Is

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Believe #Energy

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Sacrifice #Measurement #Willing

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Voice #Negative #Needs

I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #Ranking #Film

When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mother #Growing Up #Kids

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Believe #Passionate #Answers

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Love Is #Sometimes

I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Girl #Kids #Animal

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Years #Ideas #Decision

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Thinking #People #Looks

I've heard all the things — their marriage is not real, he's gay, she's gay, they swing. But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe…One thing Will and I are not here to do, is like, what's real for us is what's real for us, so you can either get on that bandwagon or not. I'll tell you what, it's too hard to be in a pretend marriage. Life's too short for that one.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Real #Believe #Gay

People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Monday #Love You #Valentine

Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Husband #Laughter #Mean

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Men #Mirrors #Long

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Girl #Dust #Shining

I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Husband #Air #Play

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Artist #Gold #Pelicans

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Real #Responsibility #Government

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Cake #House #Favorites Things

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Educational #School #Ideas

Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Girl #Running #Class

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Years #Together #Would Be

Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Girl #Art #Giving

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Confidence #Order #Empowering

I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK,
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Mirrors #Long #Looks

The statement I made in regard to, 'Will can do whatever he wants,' has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist Should we be married to individuals who can not be responsible for themselves and their families within their freedom? Should we be in relationships with individuals who we can not entrust to their own values, integrity, and LOVEfor us??? Here is how I will change my statementWill and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationshipthis means we have a GROWN one.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Integrity #Mean #And Love

I just want pieces of the world.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Pieces #World #Want

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#War #People #Baltimore

Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Dirty #Kids #Trying

Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage and feel. He makes love like he's in touch with himself, who he is. And he's a very sensual, incredible lovemaker.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Unique #Men #Interesting

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Fathers Day #Children #Emotional

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Art #Doing What You Love #Track

I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Water #Decision #Together

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Responsibility #Tvs #Taking Responsibility

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Passion #Acting #Entertainment

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Children #Thinking #Long

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Inspiring #Tired #Today

Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Worry #Traps

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Jobs #Children #Believe

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids. Now we've got a problem.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Sorry #Kids #Thinking

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Art #Pieces #Flow

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith

#Children #Old School #Thinking