Jennifer Lopez quotes

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Shame #Work Harder #Harder

As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Different #Realizing #Boundaries

Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Love You #Want #Planes

I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Grateful #Grateful Love

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

#Thinking #Parent #Singing

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Pregnancy #Opportunity #Thinking

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone 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

#Thinking #Ideas #Long

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Mean #Thinking #Wish

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

#Self Esteem #Giving

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Fashion #Who I Am #Expression

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

#Strong #Kissing #First Love

I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Sexy #Clothes #Hollywood

I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Wake Up #Vegan #Vegan Diet

I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Fashion #Perspective #Hollywood

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

#Musician #Lines #Bottom

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Latin #Guy #Musical

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Inspirational #Beauty #Thinking

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Philosophy #Thinking #Energy

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Smell #People #Judging

It's funny when you get married, you do find other couples to hang out with.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Couple #Married #Hanging Out

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#People #Littles #Lists

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Individuality #Special #Different

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Light #Darkness #Sometimes

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

#Smart #Thinking #People

I have the stardom glow.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Glowing #Stardom

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Progress #Actresses #Done

Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's not thin enough or doesn't have big enough ***** - and the girl who people call a bit overweight, but meanwhile, she's wearing a bikini and guys are saying, "God, she's sexy." It all has to do with how you feel about yourself - it's about projecting the attitude, I'm OK with who I am.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Girl #Sexy #Attitude

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Pain #Thinking #Years

Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt - but you're going to be fine.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Hurt #Heart #Sometimes

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Coffee #Ledges

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Spiritual #Philosophy #Teaching

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#People #Giving #Care

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?"
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Makeup #Thinking #Hair

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#People #The End Of The Day #Television

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Thinking #Want #Being The Best

It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Breakup #I Love Myself #Way

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!
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Style #Influence #Grew Up

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

#Ideas #Bed #Lovers

I always have to work hard to find a way to disconnect from the thinking until it becomes second nature to me because that's where you find the best moments. Dancing is like that for me all the time. It makes me feel free.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Hard Work #Thinking #Dancing

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Careers #Balance #Film

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Want #Way #Winner

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Birthday #Flower #Rose

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Years #Careers #Dancing

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

#People #Hot #Association

My philosophy on life is that we're here to love and to learn. And I've learned a lot, so I can't say "I wish this didn't happen or I didn't make that movie." And I take responsibility for being open [about relationships] in the past. I have to, and now I'm doing what I can to make it different.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Philosophy #Responsibility #Past

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

#Sexy #Running #Men

I love a massage and a bath. I don't drink - I'll have a sip, but I've never been drunk - and I don't smoke. I envy people who have those releases. They just have a drink or a cigarette, and they feel better. I have to brave it through the whole day on my own.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Feel Better #People #Drunk

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

#Women #Love Yourself #Thinking

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Thinking #Ego #Way

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

#Dancer #Singers #Actresses

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

#Laughing #Persons

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?"
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Basketball #Thinking #Talking

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Mother #Mean #Men

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Stupid #Names #People

J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Appreciation #Giving #Support

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Opportunity #Should #Passing

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Mirrors #World

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Love You #Remember

It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Beautiful #Girl #Sexy

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Acceptance #Who I Am #Shapes

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

#Sympathy #Mother #Cry

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Success

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Target #Way

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.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Different #Inspired #Brown