Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

When I was asked to write an article about what it was like to work with my husband on a TV show, I assumed it was because people thought it would be titillating. He's a creator/writer/producer, I'm an actress; there must be lots of gossip, in-fighting, maybe some crazy-sexy time on the set, right? Actually, it's pretty tame.

Working together is the quickest road to marital problems.

Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.

We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

I always hear some couples can't work together, and I don't get that. We have the most fun when we're working together.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.