If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

—Jessica Alba

About Jessica Alba

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Jessica Marie Alba ( AL-bə; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at age 19 for portraying Max Guevara, the lead character in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her cinematic breakthrough came shortly after...

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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything—even if you have no clue what you're doing.

—Jessica Alba

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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

—Jessica Alba

More quotations tagged with “fame”

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

—J. K. Rowling

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

—Dave Kellett

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

—Benjamin Haydon

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