Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez

25 quotes

Jennifer Lopez is an American singer and actress, born 1969, whose eloquence matched a remarkable career. Beyond her cultural impact through fashion, branding, and shifting mainstream beauty standards, Jennifer Lopez proved equally skilled at capturing ideas in a sentence or two. Discover 30 of Jennifer Lopez's most memorable quotes, ranging across Romantic, Women, Time, Movies, and Experience. Among their most shared lines: "Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways."

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“Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Success

All Quotes by Jennifer Lopez

“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 Lopez

Technology

“You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Change

“I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Alone

“I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Food

“Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Success

“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

Money

“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.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Women

“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!”

— Jennifer Lopez

Amazing

“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

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

— Jennifer Lopez

Beauty

“I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Home

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

— Jennifer Lopez

Death

“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

Time

“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

Movies

“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.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Experience

“I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.”

— Jennifer Lopez

Romantic

“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

Hope

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

— Jennifer Lopez

Music

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

— Jennifer Lopez

Beauty

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

— Jennifer Lopez

Women