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Love Quote by Jennifer Love Hewitt

"I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little"

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It lands with the disarming sincerity of a career built on being approachable: Jennifer Love Hewitt frames ambition not as conquest but as caretaking. The line is plain on purpose. In a culture that loves to interrogate actresses for secret genius plans or brand calculus, she offers a motive that can’t be easily cynic-splained: “I love to take care of people.” It’s a soft rebuke to the idea that public women need a sharper, more legible “power” narrative to be taken seriously.

The interesting slip is that the job she names isn’t “doctor” or “nurse” but “vet,” a profession that implies empathy without glamour, responsibility without applause. That choice reads like a bid for moral clarity: animals don’t care about celebrity, so the work is automatically real. There’s also a subtle boundary-setting: she’s redirecting attention from image to instinct, from being looked at to doing something useful.

“I always wanted to be a vet when I was little” functions as both origin story and alibi. Origin story, because it connects her to a pre-fame self, before auditions and branding. Alibi, because it reassures the audience that her nurturing impulse isn’t a PR pose; it predates the camera. For an actress whose fame has often been packaged as sweetness, this is sweetness with a spine: a claim to competence, to service, to a life that could have existed entirely outside the spotlight.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hewitt, Jennifer Love. (2026, January 16). I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-take-care-of-people-so-i-think-id-be-a-126010/

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Hewitt, Jennifer Love. "I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-take-care-of-people-so-i-think-id-be-a-126010/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-take-care-of-people-so-i-think-id-be-a-126010/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is a Actress from USA.

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