Jada Quotes

As I've gotten older, and now that my kids are starting to do what they do, I am now really focusing on sharing my knowledge and insights with them to help guide them on their journeys. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

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

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

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

I see you, Yi-yi."
She smiled. Everything she knew about love she'd learned from this pudgy, cranky, manic-depressive, binge-eating beast that had been her companion through hell and back, too many times to count. He alone had protected her, loved her, fought for her, taught her to believe that life was worth living, even if there was no one there to see you living it.
"I see you, too, Shazam. ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

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

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

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

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

Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the day, you have to learn to be your own best role model and learn what makes you happy, not necessarily what society thinks you're supposed to be or women that you look up to, what they're doing. I look at that as being a symbol in a blueprint, but never forget that who you are is what's most important. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine. ~ Karen Marie Moning

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

I know who the fuck you are," he clips the words out coldly. "You're the only one that doesn't. Dani could have anticipated the Hag's movements. You could not. Jada. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Home.
I knew some truths about that word now.
You weren't always born into one. But if you were lucky, you found one somewhere along the way. It was a place where you fit and were accepted, where people helped you with your problems and you helped them with theirs. Where you made mistakes and so did they but the love never wavered.
A place where erosions never turned into landslides because you dug one another out. And always would. ~ Karen Marie Moning

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

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

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

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

Saige, Mother is ... " I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. "Mother is dead. ~ Jada Berglund

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

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

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

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

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

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing. ~ Lil' Mama

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

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

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

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed. ~ Brandy Nacole

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

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

Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we're perfect for each other. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

I'm scared of clowns. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

Who shit in your coffee this morning?"
"And you don't say things like that. You're Ryodan ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

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

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

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

It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It's not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

Ryodan finished filling the gas tank, opens the door, and gets back in.
"Ow! If you sit on me one more time." I growl at him, "I'm going to kill you."
"Good luck with that. Don't fucking move every time I get out. You're on my side of the seat again."
"Watch out for my indent," I say crossly.
"Hummer, Mac. Nothing causes indents. Except grenades."
"I have several of those," Jada says. "Persist with your pointless bickering, I'll share one. Pin out."
I ignore her. "I'm cramped. I need to stretch."
"So, get out when I do."
"I'm afraid you'll leave me behind since you can't see me."
"I'd leave you behind if I could see you."
"Christ, would the two of you just shut up?" Dageus growls. You've been at it for hours. I think I have a headache. ~ Karen Marie Moning

I didn't have time to change."
"Then you'll make it now. I'm not working on you with that
much death on your skin. ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

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

Let me be your anchor. I'll never let you be lost again. ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

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

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

Be who you are because that's you and you are beautiful. ~ Jada Berglund

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

He was a broad-shouldered beast. ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

Right. And soon sentient beings will stop destroying one
another and themselves. Not. We're all going to die. Alone
and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes.
People make promises and don't keep them. They say they
care about you and forget you."
"I didn't forget you. I never forget you ~ Karen Marie Moning

She was a fool. She wept like a helpless child that night at Chester's while the entire club watched. Not because you broke her finger or threatened her but because you were alive and she was that happy to see you. She was always happy to see you. She lit up inside. You lost her. You let her be lost. ~ Karen Marie Moning

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

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

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