And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
Elektra is larger than life and wears her sexuality on her sleeve. So I was wearing clothes that were 100 per cent sexy. And just giving in to that.
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.
I love being physical and acting at the same time.
I think that it's not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else's, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it's really not that.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
Garner donated the red bustier top worn in her film "Elektra" to an auction, where it sold for $10,300, with the sum donated to The American Red Cross for Tsunami Relief.
Jennifer's secret-agent character Sydney Bristow became the small screen's first pregnant action-star on ABC's Alias.
Jennifer recently signed to star in an independent movie called Juno, directed by director Jason Reitman. It will also star Michael Cera and Ellen Page.
Jennifer is a big college football fan. Her favorite team is the West Virginia University Mountaineers!
Garner was named the Sexiest Small-Screen Hero in 2002 for In Style magazine's Sexy Poll
Jennifer is known for being pretty shy at parties if she doesn't know many people there.
Jennifer loves products by Kiehl's and Sjal.
Garner was ranked #14 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
In 13 Going On 30 (2004) Garner's character is editor of a magazine that features Jennifer Lopez on the cover. Lopez was engaged to Garner's husband Ben Affleck.
Garner was named one of People Magazine's 'Breakthrough Stars of 2001'.
Jennifer Garner signed to play Jude in Happy Endings, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Alias and Elektra.
Garner was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series at Screen Actors Guild Awards for Alias (2004)
After college, Garner moved to New York and began auditioning for stage roles, landing her first part only a month after arriving in town in 1995 as an understudy in the Broadway production of A Month in the Country.
Ex-boyfriend Michael Vartan said that Garner deemed Elektra as awful, and that she had to do it because it was in her contract when she did Daredevil.
Jennifer Garner reportedly turned down the role of Pamela Ewing in the upcoming "Dallas" movie, after discovering her husband Ben Affleck's ex-fiancee Jennifer Lopez had signed to star in the remake.
The producers for 13 Going on 30 approached Garner for the role, which is the first time that's happened to her.
Garner worked 80 hour weeks during Alias' fourth season.
Garner is best friends with actress Jean Louisa Kelly, who interviewed Garner for the June 2005 issue of Self magazine.
While filming in the desert for 'The Kingdom', Jennifer Garner passed out from the heat and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Jennifer and Ben had their daughter baptised in 2006. Violet, who turned one on December 1, was baptised on Christmas Eve at the United Methodist Christ Church, in Charleston.
Jennifer and Ben Affleck got engaged on Jennifer's birthday (April 17, 2005).
Jennifer had to go through five rounds of auditions before she was given the Felicity role.
Jennfer grew up in a conservative household, where makeup and earrings were prohibited.
On August 14, 2006 Garner was rushed to the hospital after collapsing in the Arizona desert while filming for The Kingdom.
Jennifer made her directorial debut in 2005 with the Alias episode "In Dreams."
Jennifer won a Golden Globe in 2002 for "Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama" for her work on Alias.
Jennifer loves reading; she reads books like Roots in her spare time.
Jennifer and Ben Affleck's daughter Violet was born in December 2005.
Jennifer is such a big fan of Martha Stewart, that she named her dog "Martha Stewart."
Jennifer played a saxophone in her high school band.
Jennifer has two sisters: Melissa (who has a son, Jack) and Susannah (who has a daughter, Emma).
In the summer of 2003 Jennifer recorded a recruitment video for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Jennifer is a trained ballerina who initially left dance for theater acting. She then moved on to TV and movies.
Early in the filming of Daredevil, while doing a stunt, Jennifer became tangled in the wires that were helping her do a flip and she nearly crashed into a wall that she was supposed to flip off. Ben Affleck, in his Daredevil costume, rushed up to her, grabbed her, and pulled her away. Jennifer later commented, "It was like he was Superman."
Jennifer moon-lighted as a hostess at Isabella's restaurant in New York while trying to launch her acting career.
Jennifer graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia.
Jennifer is five feet, nine inches.
In her early years Jennifer was an was aspiring and dedicated ballerina, and used to practice several hours a day.
In 2005, Jennifer entered the Forbes "Power 100 List of Celebrities." She ranked as the fifth best paid actress in Hollywood, accumulating an estimated $14 million over the year 2004/05. She placed eighth behind Cameron Diaz in the power rankings.
Jennifer dated Alias co-star Michael Vartan. After she started dating Ben, rumors blazed that Vartan would be leaving Alias; however, Jennifer and Michael have now settled their differences and remain close friends.