American singer & actress (1969- )
I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview with Maria Shriver, The Today Show, November 3, 2014
I can almost see lies coming through your teeth
In every word you speak you make it clear to me
That you're playing wrong and your game ain't strong
I've been in this too long, so just be moving on
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"It's Not That Serious"
All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview, Self Magazine, December 2014
I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Jennifer Lopez: Why She's Not Giving Up the Spotlight for the Sandbox", Redbook, April 12, 2010
I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview, May 2005
You like the way I dress
The way I wear my hair
Show me off to all your friends
Baby, I don't care
Just as long as you tell them who I am
Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"I'm Real"
If you had my love
And I gave you all my trust
Would you comfort me
And if somehow you knew that your love would be untrue
Would you lie to me
And call me baby
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"If You Had My Love"
I'm never satisfied
Honey my appetite
Is keeping me up at night
I'm going crazy for more of your love
I need you all the time
You bring me back to life
I'm going crazy for more of your love
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Never Satisfied"
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 instead of just one. There are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned about when you were 5 years old.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview, InStyle, April 2014
It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Readers Digest, August 2003
I think God made you for me,
a mix of passionate fidelities,
baby your so complete,
I write this song to let you know,
that you will always be
my lust, my love, my man, my child, my friend, and my king
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Dear Ben"
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
"Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart", Glamour
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.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
True Love
In my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you don't want to. Even now, it's very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I'm like, It's been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I'm thinking only about them?
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart", Glamour
I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Readers Digest, August 2003
I wake up in bed alone. The silence in my room reminds me of the emptiness in my heart. I failed at love--again. Except this time, it wasn't just me. I am haunted by the inescapable thought that I let down my beautiful babies, Max and Emme. I wanted so badly for things to have turned out differently.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
True Love
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 LOPEZ
interview, InStyle, April 2014
I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
"Jennifer Lopez: Venus Rising", Vogue, March 15, 2012
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.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview, April 1997
When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
interview, InStyle, April 2014