Jada Pinkett Smith's Most Candid Quotes

"Sometimes our biggest treasures and our biggest lessons are in the zones of discomfort."

— on Red Table Talk

"It’s more of a life partnership… I don’t own him. He doesn’t own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… Love is freedom.”

— to PEOPLE

“For every woman it’s important that we recognize that we have the right to figure out what works for us personally. We don’t have to do what everyone else is doing. If we are good, our family is going to be good.”

— on Red Table Talk

"I had two relationships before Will that were kind of serious to me, where I got cheated on — which really broke my heart — and then I cheated on somebody that I really cared about. And I have to tell you, me cheating on someone was more devastating than me being cheated on. It actually taught me to forgive when I got cheated on because I understood and what I understood most was that it didn't have anything to do with me."

— on Red Table Talk

Jada Pinkett Smith cracks up during the Facebook segment of the NATPE Miami conference on Wednesday at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami.

What's dinner without a side of "let's be real" from Jada Pinkett-Smith and her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones? Plus, you can practically hear Will Smith making dad jokes from here. If we can't get to the Smith's house for dinner, we'll settle for the Red Table Talk's "Not Really Strangers" game.

"When you’ve walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind ... there is no shadow you fear."

— on Twitter

"I was like, oh snap, I need to apologize for having denied [Willow] a certain amount of closeness. Not allowing her to have her vulnerability at certain points of her life because I was afraid of my own. And I wanted to acknowledge that.”

— on Red Table Talk

“The ego will never fail to strangle the love out of one’s heart if we allow it to take center stage in our relationships. Transferring our trust to our hearts from our egos is a painful process in learning HOW to love. BUT… through it all… when we finally get to the place where we can give and receive love in its most pure state… ego free… it is only ever… beauty.”

— on Instagram

"I've always believed a woman's superpower is how deep she can love, you know? And one of the things growing up in Baltimore, I grew up around a lot of Black women that didn't have, necessarily, resources to give, right? But they had their strength and they had their love to offer."

— on Red Table Talk

The long-married actress has the perfect strategy for keeping things exciting in (or rather, out of) the bedroom. "Think of places outside that are comfortable to have sex," she said in Redbook.

"Does he have access to his office? Have a fantasy date. Be his secretary! Be sneaky. Your girlfriend's house at a party. The bathroom! A guest bedroom! Just switch it up. Anything like that can keep it going. Anything it takes to keep the flame alive."

In July 2020, the Red Table Talk host and husband Will Smith revealed they briefly separated several years ago, before finding their way back to each other.

In the episode, Smith said the time apart took a toll on him, saying, "I wasn't sure I was ever going to speak to you again. Like the fact that I'm speaking to you again is a miracle. [Marriage] ain't for the weak at heart. There's just certain things that you have to go through. I wish it could be all magic and miracles."

Pinkett Smith agreed, adding "You gotta go through some s— to get the answers. And I'm just happy because I definitely believe that you and I, we never ever, ever thought that we would make it back."

Through the strife, the host voiced her gratitude for reaching a "new place of unconditional love" with her spouse.

"I don't think we know, culturally, what women like in regards to sex. Because women have not been allowed to explore in the same way as men."

— on Red Table Talk