Quotes By Jennifer Lopez

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

I have to work, for my soul.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

You can't take life for granted.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

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.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

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.