Jennifer Aniston quotes:

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

I want to see friends more and travel more.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

You train your man to do nothing.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

When I was 22, I was having a ball!

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it

Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

I actually will always stop and watch [Friends episodes], not for the whole thing, but usually because I've forgotten a lot of the episodes. It's sort of fun for a second, I'm like, what's this one? And sometimes it comes back to me. I always know what year it was by what length my hair was or what color.

Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

I am a creature of habit.

I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

She's been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is just the most dependable and loyal and funny as all get out. I mean, she just cracks me up. Constantly.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

That's not a rat, that's my ferret.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.

If You're Not Happy, You Can Become Happy. Happiness Is a Choice.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.

My keep-match meals: I'm good to go together with kale salad. Actually, Justin [Theroux] makes an ideal one with a poached egg and quinoa. It's actually scrumptious.

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well. I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment... [but] You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.

Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious.

I really do believe it you can live through remodeling a home, you can live the rest of your lives together.

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

There are many stages of grief.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM [Transcendental Meditation] and that's really changed everything.

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

I'm a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

I used to love hospitals. That's another weird thing about me. I remember when my grandmother -- so sweet, God rest her soul -- was in the hospital, I always loved visiting her there. Very morbid memory! Most people hate hospitals. And I'm not a big fan of them now, but there was something about it for me back then.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.