Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.

The VS Angels are beautiful, but so are you.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Looking good is the best revenge.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.