I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.
Jennifer Lopez
I was in third grade when Rapper's Delight changed my life. But, when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music.
Jennifer Lopez
"I throw myself into love because I believe in it, but when things don't work you have to take responsibility. You all know things have gone wrong for me. Everybody has laughed, everybody has had a knock at me. It hurts, it always does. There have been times when I didn't want to be me any more. From the outside looking in, it may have appeared that it was a glamorous exciting life, but I would have swapped places with anybody. It really did start to get to me and the easy thing to do would be to walk away."
Jennifer Lopez
"In every movie they want you to look as thin as you can look. In Selena, it was the other way around: 'How can we shoot her butt so it looks like Selena's?'"
"I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life."
Jennifer Lopez
"I don't really check out other people's butts."
Jennifer Lopez
"You laugh it [outrageous tabloid stories] off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go."
Jennifer Lopez
"I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you."
Jennifer Lopez
"If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else."
Jennifer Lopez
"My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever."
Jennifer Lopez
"I'm trying to get the focus back on what I do as an artist, not what I do at home."
"I think crossroads come at many times during your life. Up to this point, I've had several. You get to a certain point in your life and you're like, Am I supposed to be doing this? And it's usually in the face of some failure - something that didn't work out the way you wanted it to. And you're faced with a decision: Do I keep trying to do this or do I give up?"
Jennifer Lopez
"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face."
Jennifer Lopez
"I didn't expect it to happen like this, wrapping one film and flying out to do a new one the next day. But I'm fresh enough and ambitious enough to stay up all night for the sake of a job. I'm not gonna take it easy. I want to do so much more when I'm getting these great opportunities."
Jennifer Lopez
"I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing."
Jennifer Lopez
"It was all a bit mad. For a girl like me, wearing gorgeous clothes and having all this attention was amazing. It was like being a princess. But it didn't take me long to realise that that sort of fame can be scary. The more the circus builds up around you, the more you start to lose all those intentions that get you there in the first place. I was always about being a good performer and working hard, doing movies, making music, but that started to get lost in all that crazy stuff."
Jennifer Lopez
"We've all had a love of our life and failed love affairs. I'm just the biggest romantic - it's really sad. I tell people that, but nobody listens."
Jennifer Lopez
"If you focus on the money, you're not going to get anywhere. You can want to be successful, but at the end of the day, if money is your motivation, if that's how shallow your outlook is on life, then you're going to be such an empty person. Because there's nothing driving you from the inside -- there's no passion..."
Jennifer Lopez
"This film [The Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs."
Jennifer Lopez
"I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more."
Jennifer Lopez
"I'm not mad about my ankles - they're too skinny."
Jennifer Lopez
A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish Cameron Diaz would have done more with.
Jennifer Lopez
I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
Jennifer Lopez
I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.
Jennifer Lopez
I thought she'd offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.
Jennifer Lopez
On the lesson in tough love she got from her mother
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'
Jennifer Lopez
It makes me laugh when she says Salma Hayek got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing.
Jennifer Lopez
It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.
Jennifer Lopez
It's hard for them [partners] to live in my shadow, knowing that they will never make the money I do.
Jennifer Lopez
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, we're adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
Jennifer Lopez
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Jennifer Lopez
People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
Jennifer Lopez
Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that's not really there.
Jennifer Lopez
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
Jennifer Lopez
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Movie/TV title: Anaconda 
Movie/TV title: The Back-up Plan
Movie/TV title: El Cantante
Movie/TV title: Bordertown
Movie/TV title: Enough
Movie/TV title: The Cell
