Top 180 Jennifer López Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Because you can’t expect to be treated great if you don’t first believe that you are great.”

— Jennifer López

152. “You have to fight for the things you want.”

— Jennifer López

153. “I’m a singer. I’m a dancer. I’m a performer. I’m an actress. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?”

— Jennifer López

154. “It wasn’t a “Eureka!” kind of moment – it was the slow realization that the parts of me that had been empty were starting to fill up again. Yet, as gradual as this all was, there was one surreal moment that crystallized it for me – one moment where I suddenly understood what Idol meant to people and what it was doing for me.”

— Jennifer López

155. “It’s funny when you get married, you do find other couples to hang out with.”

— Jennifer López

156. “I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.”

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157. “I’ll just get better as I go along because I’m open to getting better. If you have the goods, there’s nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn’t have the goods, they’re insecure. I don’t have that problem.”

— Jennifer López

158. “I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I’d felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.”

— Jennifer López

159. “When I found out I was having twins, I mean, I was in denial that I was even pregnant. So when I found out I was having twins, I kind of just laughed and was like, “Of course this would happen.””

— Jennifer López

160. “I have to work, for my soul.”

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161. “I remember listening to an interview with Beyonce and she talked about how she and her husband, Jay-Z, have always made it a point to have the conversation about them be about their music, not about their business, not about their personal business.”

— Jennifer López

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

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163. “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.”

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164. “If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they’re true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.”

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “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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168. “People used to believe their life – or at least their life as a performer – was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I’m barely getting that under control now.”

— Jennifer López

169. “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.”

— Jennifer López

170. “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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171. “I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.”

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172. “Obviously, throughout my career, I’ve always felt like certain things come to me at the right time. When I look at the work that I’ve done, it’s always very indicative of where I was in my life at the moment.”

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173. “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!”

— Jennifer López

174. “All of a sudden one day I was like, I’m good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That’s what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.”

— Jennifer López

175. “I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.”

— Jennifer López

176. “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.”

— Jennifer López

177. “I think that’s what a partnership is – you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.”

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

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179. “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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180. “You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.”

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181. “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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182. “Throughout my career I’ve always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.”

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183. “I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, “Yeah, right.” You don’t do that where I come from.”

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184. “I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.”

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185. “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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186. “Just making sure that they both felt equally loved is what was tough about the twins.”

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187. “Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.”

— Jennifer López

188. “I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.”

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189. “Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it’s still weird.”

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190. “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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191. “Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.”

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192. “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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193. “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.”

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

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195. “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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196. “I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that’s why I like to work so much – so I can just get to that moment where I’m like, “Whoa.” I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!”

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197. “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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198. “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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