167 Quotes by Jada Pinkett Smith

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I just want pieces of the world."

"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!"

"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."

"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,"

"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."

"When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'"

"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."