Top 100 Jennifer Lopez Quotes
#1. There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
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#2. [After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.
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#3. Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths
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#5. There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!
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#6. I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.
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#7. I think some people just use pregnancy as an excuse to really pig out. To be really disgusting. I am just going to eat this is my opportunity. I waited for this my whole life. I was not one of these people.
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#8. You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.
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#9. I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.
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#10. I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"
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#11. I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.
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#12. If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.
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#13. When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.
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#14. I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.
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#15. I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.
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#16. When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.
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#17. I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.
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#18. My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!
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#19. I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.
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#20. 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.'
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#21. It's funny when you get married, you do find other couples to hang out with.
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#22. 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.
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#24. I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.
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#25. I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.
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#26. Just making sure that they both felt equally loved is what was tough about the twins.
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#27. The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.
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#28. I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].
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#29. When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.
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#30. My hair and makeup people and stylists have changed over the years, but they all know sometimes I want to do Marilyn, and on another day I want to do Jackie O. Though sometimes I look back and have to say, "Wow! What were we thinking there?"
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#31. I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.
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#32. 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. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
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#33. I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.
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#34. I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
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#36. When I face myself, I go, You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.
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#37. 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.
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#38. And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.
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#41. You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.
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#42. Once again, the show became life imitating art, imitating life, because we went in with this whole boxing thing - you're down but not out, and no matter what's happening in your life, you keep fighting.
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#44. I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
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#45. I know what it feels like for your soul to be diminished by the way your loved one is treating you . . . maybe it's a push, a shove, or a nasty word that stays with you. The scars might not be visible, but they run just as deep.
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#46. I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.
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#47. 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.
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#49. When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.
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#50. 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.
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#51. It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.
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#52. I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.
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#53. You like the way I dress The way I wear my hair Show me off to all your friends Baby, I don't care Just as long as you tell them who I am Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn
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#54. 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.
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#56. It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.
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#57. 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.
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#58. The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.
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#59. People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous
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#60. When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull.
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#61. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
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#62. Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone ... you can choose your family.
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#63. Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
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#64. I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.
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#65. Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it - or try to, anyway - and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.
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#67. You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.
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#68. This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
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#69. The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked.
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#70. I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.
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#71. Just because you dress sexy doesn't mean you're a bad girl; it just means you know how to dress.
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#72. In the end, the truth finds a way to surface, even if you don't want it to.
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#73. Integrity is your own gauge of what is right for you. Integrity is not a stand-alone concept,
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#74. So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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#77. I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.
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#78. I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.
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#79. This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.
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#80. 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.
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#81. I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.
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#82. For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.
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#83. I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut!
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#84. You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
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#85. 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.
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#86. If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
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#87. As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.
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#88. Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Love scenes are always weird, though. They're always uncomfortable. It's all the people around who make it uncomfortable. It's not usually the actor you're working with, because they usually feel just as weird as you do!
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#91. Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.
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#92. I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.
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#93. I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.
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#94. Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it's still weird.
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#95. Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.
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#98. I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.
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#99. But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
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#100. I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!
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