Quotes from Jennifer Lopez

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

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.

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.

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.

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 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.

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

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.

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.

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.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

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.

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

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

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.'

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

I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

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.

...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

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!

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.