Jennifer Lopez Quotes That Are dynamic, iconic and versatile

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

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.

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.

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

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.'

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

You have to fight for the things you want.

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.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

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 do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!

Just because you dress sexy doesn't mean you're a bad girl; it just means you know how to dress.

For me, love is the never-ending question.

It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

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.'

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old.

And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you did--that it's really, well, convoluted. My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don't want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I'm living a much more unscripted life now than I have in a long time.

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.

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.

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.

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.

I have to work, for my soul.

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.

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

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.

Men really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.

I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

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.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

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.

We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together: We did "El Cantante," we did the tour, we made all the music together, he produced my album [2007's Spanish-language "Como Ama una Mujer"]. That was a really beautiful time for us.

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

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.

You've gotta do things that make you happy.

When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.

I know it's hard for women to tap into that feeling of self-worth. We need to get the message out that you are valued, you are a goddess and don't forget that.

I'm not going to make a judgment on plastic surgery because I don't have to yet. I mean, I'd like to think I'll feel great about myself and age gracefully, but then I think, Well, what if I do want a little bit of something? I'm open to being open.

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It's just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don't know if I could do it on my own.

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!'