Jennifer Lopez - Quotes

• "This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs."

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

• "You laugh it off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go."

• "I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge."

• "Can you piss off a Puerto Rican and live to tell about it?"

• "It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else."

• "I have the stardom glow."

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

• "A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish Cameron Diaz would have done more with."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "It makes me laugh when she says Salma Hayek got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing."

• "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."