Where You Really Have Your Eggs In One Basket And That Breach Happens And You Know You Should Go But You're Still In Love And You Just Don't Know What To Do. It Hits You Because It's Not Like -- You're A Cheater, And A Liar, And I Hate You, And You're No Good, And I'm Leaving. It's Not That. It's Like, I'm Tormented. Even Though You've Done This And I Know It, I Still Don't Know What To Do. I Know I Should Go, But I Don't Want To. And That's Why It's Such A F***ed-up Thing.

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I've Played More Villains Than Anything Else. And I Love Playing Villains, Because I Can Just Be Evil And Do Whatever I Want.

Evil

Want

Villain

I Am A Strong Believer In Kissing Being Very Intimate, And The Minute You Kiss, The Floodgates Open For Everything Else.

Strong

Kissing

Dating

I Think That's What A Partnership Is - You Take The Positives From Both People And Incorporate Them.

Thinking

People

Partnership

My Mom Always Told Me That If You Work Hard, You Can Achieve Anything. And It's True. It's One Of The Truest Things Ever.

Mom

Hard Work

Achieve

I Don't Really Check Out Other People's Butts.

People

Checks

Throughout My Career I've Always Felt Like Certain Things Come To Me At The Right Time.

Careers

Certain

Right Time

[after The Twins' Birth,] I Spent Two Years Doing Nothing. I Was A Wife And A Mom. But You Need That Time To Grow. You Can't Be Afraid Of, 'oh, I'm Out Of The Public, Then I'm Going To Have To Make A Comeback.' It's Ridiculous. No.

Mom

Mother

Years

Always Remember, You Will Live, You Will Love, You Will Dance Again.

Love You

Remember You

Remembers You

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.

Stupid

Not Stupid

Grows

Obviously No Parent Does Everything Right. It's This Weird Thing That Happens Where You Are Striving To Be As Good As You Can Be So That They Turn Out Well. And That Requires That You Be A Really Great, Evolved, Aware Person In Every Moment. Which Is Pretty Awesome. But It's Also Putting Tremendous Pressure On Yourself--which Is Why Women Feel So Guilty!

Parent

Pressure

Doe

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.

People

The End Of The Day

Television

If You Don't Love Yourself, You Can't Love Anybody Else. And I Think As Women We Really Forget That.

Women

Love Yourself

Thinking

By Nature I Am Not Tough, Believe It Or Not.

Believe

Tough

He Wouldn't Talk To Me For Two Months. I Was Like, 'what An Ass**le.' Actors Are Used To Getting Their Way And To Treating Women Like Objects. "[on Wesley Snipes After She Reports He Made Unreturned Passes At Her]

Two

Actors

Way

I'm Very Into Positive Thinking. The Minute I Feel Nervousness Or Anxiety Or Fear, I Go, "no, No, That's Not A Thought That I Need To Have Right Now. Everything's Great, Everything's Good, You're Going To Be Fine."

Positive Thinking

Anxiety

Needs

People Think Because I'm Shaped This Way, I'm Scandalous

Inspiration

Thinking

People

Just Making Sure That They Both Felt Equally Loved Is What Was Tough About The Twins.

Twins

Tough

Felt

My Main Priority Now Is That My Kids Are Happy; That's My Number-one Focus In Life. Are These Little People Happy, Content, And Getting Everything They Need? Everything After That Is Secondary. Before, My Work Was My Main Priority -- Even Above Myself.

Kids

Numbers

People

I Think To Give Something A Chance, To Really Get To Know Somebody, You Want To Do It Out Of The Public Eye.

Eye

Thinking

Giving

You Have To Fight For The Things You Want.

Determination

Fighting

Want

I'm Not Going To Make A Judgment On Plastic Surgery Because I Don't Have To Yet. I Mean, I'd Like To Think I'll Feel Great About Myself And Age Gracefully, But Then I Think, Well, What If I Do Want A Little Bit Of Something? I'm Open To Being Open.

Mean

Thinking

What If

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.

Teacher

Character

Imagination

A Nickname Is Not Supposed To Be Your Only Name. I Miss Jennifer A Bit.

Names

Missing

Jennifer

I Had Twins, So It Was Really Uncomfortable [to Sleep], Because You Lay On One Side, And There's A Baby, And You Lay On The Other Side And There's A Baby. So I Had A Really Hard Time With It.

Baby

Sleep

Hard Times

Once You Have A Lot Of Success, You Become A Target In Many Ways.

Target

Way

Getting To Play The Part Of Selena Was Life-changing For Me, I Got To Immerse Myself In Her Life, Got To Know Her Family, Her Home, Her Culture ... Every Part Of Her Story. It Was A Special Time In My Life Both Professionally And Personally. Playing Her Not Only Opened Doors For Me In The Film World, But It Inspired Me To Start My Own Music Career. In A Lot Of Ways, I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today If I Hadn't Had That Experience.

Life

Music

Home

We Had Our Moment [with Marc Anthony] In The Third Or Fourth Year That We Were Married, When We Did Everything Together: We Did "el Cantante," We Did The Tour, We Made All The Music Together, He Produced My Album [2007's Spanish-language "como Ama Una Mujer"]. That Was A Really Beautiful Time For Us.

Beautiful

Years

Together

You've Got To Love Yourself First. You've Got To Be Okay On Your Own Before You Can Be Okay With Somebody Else.

Love You

Loving Yourself

Firsts

I Think Everything Needs To Be Played Real, For Reality's Sake, For Truth. And That Is The Drama And The Comedy. When You Do That, It's Funnier. And When You Do That, You Really Do Hit The Emotional Beats. I Do It The Same Way As I Do A Drama. I Just Play It For Truth, And Then Maybe Have A Little Bit Of Fun With It Sometimes.

Fun

Real

Drama

I Feel Like I Haven't Started Yet. I'm Looking Forward To The Ninth Album, The Thirtieth Movie.

Albums

Looking Forward

Feels

Ain't It Funny How A Moment Could Just Change Your Life, And You Don't Want To Face What's Wrong Or Right. Ain't It Strange How Fate Can Play A Part, In The Story Of Your Heart.

Philosophy

Heart

Fate

With Hard Work, Living A Good Life, You Can Do Anything. You Will Be Rewarded For That.

Good Life

Hard Work

Can Do

I Know That There Is A Force In The World And An Energy That You Can Put Out, And When You Put Out Love It Comes Back To You. I Think That's My Basic Philosophy.

Philosophy

Thinking

Energy

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.

I Judge People On How They Smell, Not How They Look.

Smell

People

Judging

You Have To Remember The Value Of Your Individuality - That You Have Something Special And Different To Offer That Nobody Else Can.

Individuality

Special

Different

I Was Always A Singer And A Dancer, And I Always Wanted To Be An Actress. For Me, It's All Just One Thing.

Dancer

Singers

Actresses

Don't Push Your Weaknesses, Play With Your Strengths

Play

Weakness

I Love A Good Lyricist - Always Have. The Thing That Inspired Me Most Was The Different Performers, Like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Even Janet Jackson.

Different

Inspired

Brown

I'm Feeling Lucky Like A Four-leaf Clover

Feelings

Lucky

Four

I Was Always Very Comfortable With Who I Was. Confident. I’ve Never Looked At [my Body] In A Negative Way.

Negative

Body

Way

Getting Back Into Shape [after Bringing Twing] Was Challenging, Like It Is For Anybody Who Has A Baby. The First Few Pounds Drop Off Really Fast. And Then You're Like Stuck With Those Last 10 To 20 Pounds, Let's Say, And Then You've Really Got To Get Disciplined.

Baby

Challenges

Shapes

I Think That's Very Important For Romantic Comedies, That They Do Deal With [modern]issues.

Thinking

Issues

Important

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.'

Love

Want

Planes

I Always Have To Work Hard To Find A Way To Disconnect From The Thinking Until It Becomes Second Nature To Me Because That's Where You Find The Best Moments. Dancing Is Like That For Me All The Time. It Makes Me Feel Free.

Hard Work

Thinking

Dancing

When You're Younger, You Don't Realize You Have Limitations And That You Are The One Who Has To Take Care Of Yourself. Nobody Else Is Going To Do It For You. And So, With All Of That Time, Maturity And Realizations, I'm In A Much Better Place To Be The Best That I've Ever Been And To Continue Growing As A Person And As An Artist.

Artist

Maturity

Growing As A Person

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.

Gay

Rights

Years

I Don't Regret What I've Been Through. I've Had Ups And Downs, Super Highs And Some Really Low Lows. I've Been So Blessed That I Could Never Say, "i Wish This Didn't Happen." It's Part Of Who I Am. There's Nothing In My Life That's So Ugh.

Thanksgiving

Regret

Blessed

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.

Progress

Done

Want

And At The End Of The Day, I Just Want My Work To Speak For Itself.

Work

The End Of The Day

Want

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.

Thinking

People

Doing What You Want

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.

Men

Enough Already

Years

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.

Children

Unconditional Love

Deep Love

People Equate Sexy With Promiscuous. They Think That Because I'm Shaped This Way, I Must Be Scandalous - Like Running Around And Bringing Men Into My Hotel Room. But It's Just The Opposite.

Sexy

Running

Men

Whenever It Feels Uncomfortable To Tell The Truth, That's Often The Most Important Time To Tell It.

Important

Telling The Truth

Uncomfortable

I Came From The Bronx And A Certain Background. I Worked Really Hard. I Kept My Focus On The Right Things.

Focus

Bronx

Certain

The Bear Is What We All Wrestle With. Everybody Has Their Bear In Life. It's About Conquering That Bear And Letting Him Go.

Letting Go

Struggle

Bears

You Have To Stand Up And Say, 'there's Nothing Wrong With Me Or My Shape Or Who I Am; You're The One With The Problem!'

Acceptance

Who I Am

Shapes

And I Love The Idea Of Spending The Whole Day In Bed With My Lover.

Ideas

Bed

Lovers

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.

Past

Years

Nurse

I Don't Get Anything For Free. I Pay For All My Beauty Treatments.

Pay

Treatment

I've Always Been Asked The Question, "what Is It With Australian Men?" It's Weird Because Most Of My Friends Here [in The United States] Are American Men. I Think There's Cultural Differences. It's A Really American Thing To Kind Of Wax Your Chest. As A Man It's Like, "get Rid Of That Unsightly Hair!" In Australia It's Like, "mate, What Are You Doing? Why Would You Do That? Doesn't That Hurt?" So There's A Few Little Differences That Keep Us.

Hurt

Men

Thinking

I Just Thought That A Naked Pregnant Woman Checking Herself Out Would Be So Funny. I Actually Wish There Was More Of It. An Actually, It Was My Idea To Put It In, Because I Just Remember Being Pregnant And Just Marveling At The Hugeness Of My Body, Like Looking In The Mirror From All Angles. But That's Something You Do Privately.

Mirrors

Ideas

Wish

Women Should Never Go Without Earrings. Passing On Them Is An Opportunity Missed.

Opportunity

Passing On

Should

You Have To Take Care Of Yourself, Your Body, Your Mind, Take Care Of Your Soul-be Your Own Keeper.

Soul

Mind

Body

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.

Believe

Thinking

Ideas

Being On Camera, You Have A Responsibility To Look Good. If You Don't, You'll Hear About It.

Responsibility

Cameras

Looks

A Romantic Comedy Has To Be Funny And Make You Think About Life; But The Obstacle That Has To Be Overcome Is Key.

Funny

Romantic

Thinking

Just Because You Dress Sexy Doesn't Mean You're A Bad Girl; It Just Means You Know How To Dress.

Girl

Sexy

Mean

I Just Think That The Whole Diva Thing Is A Misrepresentation Of Who I Am.

Thinking

Who I Am

Misrepresentation

As You Get Older And As You Experience And Go Through Different Things You Realize You Have To Set Boundaries. You Have To For Your Life. You Have To Say This Is Ok And This Is Not Ok. This Is What I Do For A Living And This Is My Life. It's The Only One I Get And So I Have To Set Boundaries.

Different

Realizing

Boundaries

Nobody Wants To Hear Celebrity Complain

Complaining

Want

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.

Couple

Reading

Book

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.

Inspirational

Dance

Writing

I'm Living The Life I Always Dreamed Of Living. From The Time I Was A Youngster I Wanted To Be A Celebrity. It's A Great Life. The Only Bad Thing Is That People Are More Interested In Your Personal Life Than They Are In Your Work And It's Freaky

Live Life

People

Freaky

My Philosophy On Life Is That We're Here To Love And To Learn. And I've Learned A Lot, So I Can't Say "i Wish This Didn't Happen Or I Didn't Make That Movie." And I Take Responsibility For Being Open [about Relationships] In The Past. I Have To, And Now I'm Doing What I Can To Make It Different.

Philosophy

Responsibility

Past

I Am Positive - Determined To Move Forward With My Life, Bring Up My Babies, And Do The Best Job I Can As A Mother, Entertainer, And Person.

Mother

Baby

Jobs

No Matter Where I Go I Know Where I Came From.

Matter

Knows

Because The Truth Is, Nobody Knows What's Best For You Better Than You Do. You Have To Really Sit Still And Ask Yourself: What Do I Want? Does This Feel Right? What Should I Do? I Realized I Had To Go Back And Do What I Had Always Done. Listening To My Gut Was Just As Important As Listening To The Advice Of Others, And Only I Knew What Was Best For Me.

Advice

Listening

Important

The Rise Of Salsa Was Such An Important Time In Musical History, Not Just In Latin Music But Music In General, Because These Guys Created A New Sound.

Latin

Guy

Musical

I Always Joke About Letting The Haters Motivate You. Everybody Has That In Their Life, People Who Doubt Them Or Make Them Feel Less Than They Are. It Just Takes Faith And Belief In Yourself, And You've Got To Dig Deep Into That. That Has To Come From You - Nobody's Going To Give You That.

People

Giving

Doubt

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.

Girl

Drama

Epic

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.

Careers

Balance

Film

When I Was Young, I Was Just About Hard Work. But As I Got Older, I Did Experience Anxiety, Doubt, Judgment, And It's So Easy To Lose Yourself For A Second.

Hard Work

Anxiety

Doubt

I Did Ballet, Jazz And Flamenco From When I Was Five Years Old. And My Professional Career Started With Dancing In Musicals.

Years

Careers

Dancing

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.

Jobs

Sorry

Men

This Film [the Cell] Certainly Is Not Meant For The Girls Who Sing Along With My Songs.

Girl

Song

Cells

I Grew Up Walking Around Naked In My House. My Mom Was Like That, And My Sisters.

Mom

House

Naked

I'm Not J.lo, She's Not A Real Person. She Was Just A Bit Of Fun That Got Really Crazy. I've Never Been Anyone But Jennifer. I Was Going To Call The Album Call Me Jennifer Because That Would Be My Way Of Saying Goodbye To The Whole J.lo Thing. But Rebirth Is Perfect Because It Means So Much More.

Goodbye

Fun

Crazy

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.

Pregnancy

Kids

Motherhood

Until You Value Yourself Enough And Love Yourself Enough To Know That, You Can't Really Have A Healthy Relationship.

Love You

Healthy

Enough

They're Making Me Out To Be A Serial Marrying Person Or Something. I'm Laughing At That.

Laughing

Persons

Serials

What You Realize Is It's Not About Financial Success As An Artist. A Lot Of Actors And Actresses, Producers, Writers, And The Creative People In The Business Realize That. It's Not About That. Yeah, We All Want To Be Successful, But We All Just Want To Create And We Want To Tell The Stories. We Want To Continue Creating The Opportunities To Be Able To Continue Doing What We Love. So, At The End Of The Day, I Feel Like It's A Win-win For Everybody To Be Able To Make These Independent Films.

Independent

Successful

Winning

I Love What I Do. I Have An Insatiable Appetite For Creating Things And Wanting To Get Better At What I Do And Always Growing And Never Stopping. I Don't Know. It's Something I Was Born With. It's Definitely A Drive. It's A Passion, And It's Driven For A Love For What I Do.

Passion

Creating Things

Get Better

A Lucky Model Who's Been Given A Lot Of Opportunities I Just Wish She [cameron Diaz] Would Have Done More With.

Opportunity

Wish

Done

I Only Do What My Gut Tells Me To. I Think It's Smart To Listen To Other People's Advice, But At The End Of The Day, You're The Only One Who Can Tell You What's Right For You.

Smart

Thinking

People

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep. I Think What's Really Important Is Finding A Balance Of Mind, Body And Spirit.

Inspirational

Beauty

Thinking

I Look To The Women Who Epitomize Old Hollywood Glamour, Like Rita Hayworth. She Had A Way Of Making Sophisticated Clothes Look Sexy Without Ever Seeming Sleazy Or Cheap.

Sexy

Clothes

Hollywood

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

Confidence

Insecure

Get Better

When I Found Out I Was Having Twins, I Was Even In Denial That I Was Pregnant. When I Found Out I Was Having Twins I Just Laughed. "of Course This Would Happen!" I Started Giggling.

Mean

Denial

Twins

I'm Very Comfortable With Being Productive. I Like Doing Things, And I Like Creating Things. As Far As Being Powerful, I Guess I'm Comfortable With It. It's Not Really How I Think Of Myself.

Powerful

Thinking

Productive

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.

Thinking

Parent

Singing

Sometimes You Have To Explore The Darkness To Get To The Light And Get Back To Who You Are.

Light

Darkness

Sometimes

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.

Inspirational

Dance

Fake People

Men Really Disgust Me If They Don't Have A Nice Smile, Nice Lips And Nice Teeth...they Have Too Many Disgusting Habits - Like Scratching Themselves All The Time. And It's Really Weird How Guys Think That Passing Gas Is The Funniest Thing In The World. They Love To Do That Thing In Front Of Girls And Laugh About It.

Girl

Nice

Men

You've Gotta Do Things That Make You Happy. As Women, We Tend To Give Away A Lot. We Take Care Of A Lot Of People, And We Can't Forget To Take Care Of Ourselves.

People

Giving

Care

You Have Got To Love Yourself First. You Have Got To Be Ok On Your Own Before You Can Be Ok With Somebody Else. You Have Got To Value Yourself And Know That You Are Worth Everything.

Love You

Love Yourself

Values

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.

Grateful

Grateful Love

I'm Bad At A Ton Of Things. I'm Bad At Sitting Still. I'm Bad At Basketball. My Worst Habit Is That While People Are Talking, I Will Already Be Thinking Three Other Things. It's Rude. Sometimes If The Person Is Very In Tune And They Notice, They're Like "where Are You Right Now?"

Basketball

Thinking

Talking

I'm A Hopeless Romantic And Passionate Person When It Comes To Love.

Romantic

Passionate

Hopeless

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.

Water

Feelings

Trying

You've Got To Love Yourself First, And Until You Value Yourself Enough And Love Yourself Enough To Know That, You Can't Really Have A Healthy Relationship.

Breakup

Love You

Healthy

When You Have Children, You Realise You Can't Plan Anything. There's No Plan A, No Plan B. Life Will Happen And You Will Go With It.

Children

Plan B

Plans

I Don't Look At People And See Color And Race. I See Inside.

Race

Color

People

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.

Character

Thinking

People

Honestly, I Have S Much Respect For Single Moms Or Anybody Who Finds Themselves A Single Mother, But To Even Choose To Be Single Mother Is Just So Courageous To Me. It Is Such A Hard Job To Raise A Child And Be Everything To That Child Without A Partner. It's Just Admirable And Courageous And Brave And Every Other Valiant Word I Can Think Of. I Don't Know If I Could Do It On My Own.

Mom

Mother

Jobs

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.'

Hollywood

Oscars

Friend Love

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!

Tired

Fixing

Moments

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.

Swear To God

People

Hot

Puffy Produced Four Of The Tracks On The Album. Those Are The Four Songs That Are Collaborations Between Puffy And Me. And He Gives Me My Space To Work Even When We Work Together, Like With My Producer And My Vocal Coach.

Song

Space

Track

Always Follow Your Heart. Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt - But You're Going To Be Fine.

Hurt

Heart

Sometimes

I Would Never Speak About Specifics In My Own Relationships Because I Think It's Tacky. If You Seriously Want To Know, Listen To The Music.

Thinking

Tacky

Want

I Love Improv-ing, You Know, From Very Early On When I Started Acting The School That I Went To And Everything Was Very Big On Ad-libbing And Improv-ing And Messing Things Up, So I Feel Very Comfortable Doing Stuff Like That.

School

Acting

Stuff

I'm Also Influenced By All The Places I've Traveled Since Then: I've Been To Hollywood And Great Fashion Shows And Seen The World. I Have A Different Perspective, And I Mix That Up.

Fashion

Perspective

Hollywood

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.

Husband

Listening

Interviews

It's Not That Serious I Never Put That Much Thought Into Us It Wasn't That I Loved You I Was Curious

Serious

Curious

I Loved You

When We Graduated From College And Law School, We Had A Mountain Of Debt.

School

College

Law

You Can't Take Life For Granted.

Reality

Granted

Taking Life For Granted

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.

Mother

Teacher

Father

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?

Baby

Morning

Thinking

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.

Moving

Self

Creating

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.

Technology

Practice

Stuff

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.

Sympathy

Mother

Cry

When It's Easy, It's Great. But When Something Bad Happens Is When You Really Learn. It Causes Self-examination, It Causes You To Take A Look At Yourself. You Naturally Start Analyzing. It's Not That You're Wrong; It's That Sometimes You Just Need To Make Adjustments.

Sometimes

Easy

Look At Yourself

You Get What You Give. What You Put Into Things Is What You Get Out Of Them.

Self Esteem

Giving

I Love Working With The Singers. I Love Just Finding Them.

Singers

Findings

Everything I Wanted Before, I Want Twice As Much Now. And That Doesn't Mean Material Things; It Means To Explore More, To Think More. Being An Artist Doesn't Start Because You're 21, And It Doesn't End Because You're 51. You Are Who You Are Until The Day You Die.

Mean

Artist

Thinking

The Minute I Feel Nervousness Or Anxiety Or Fear, I Go, 'no, No, That's Not A Thought That I Need To Have Right Now. Everything's Great, Everything's Good, You're Going To Be Fine'.

Anxiety

Nervousness

I Wasn't The Most Popular Girl In Class, I Had My Friends, But I Was Comfortable With Myself. There's Always Those Most Popular Girls And I Wasn't One Of Those.

Girl

Class

My Friends

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

Baby

Hair

Who I Am

If You Ask Me, I'd Like To Become The First Female President. That Would Be Really Cool. The First Thing I Would Do Is Redecorate The White House, It Doesn't Look Very Cozy.

Funny

Humor

White

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.

Children

Artist

Differences

I Had Such A Reputation, And It Was Sad Because I Felt Like It So Didn't Represent Who I Really Was.

Reputation

Felt

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.

Strong

First Love

Kissing

I Just Never Really Gave Myself Any Credit. And Because Of That, Nobody Else Did Either. You Mirror What The World Mirrors To You.

Mirrors

Credit

World

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. I Definitely Feel Like I've Grown Up. So, I Guess In A Way Parts Of Me Are Going To Be Different, But In General I'm Still The Same Girl From The Bronx Who Had Big Dreams.

Girl

Dream

Kids

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep. I Think What's Really Important Is Finding A Balance Of Mind, Body And Spirit. Someone 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.

Thinking

Long Ago

Ideas

And I Never Ask What I'm Doing The Next Day. I Don't Want To Know What I'm Doing Tomorrow. It's Much Too Overwhelming. So I Just Go Day By Day, Without Knowing.

Next Day

Knowing

Want

When I Face Myself, I Go, "you Have A Fear Of Really Being On Your Own. So You Know What? That's What We're Gonna Do Right Now.

Faces

Right Now

Knows

It's A Shame To Call Somebody A 'diva' Simply Because They Work Harder Than Everybody Else.

Shame

Work Harder

Harder

I'm Deeply Grateful To Live And Work In This Country And To The United States For Opening Its Arms To Me The Way It Has. I Mean I Think My Attitude As An Aussie Coming Here - I've Been Coming Here For A While Now, I've Been Coming Here For About 12 Or 13 Years - Is That This Country Has Afforded Me And My Family Work And Security. For That, I'm Forever Grateful.

Country

Attitude

Grateful

I'd Be Stupid Not To Take Into Consideration That There Are Certain Things People Will Not Consider Me For Because My Name Is Lopez. And I Know I Can Do Any Kind Of Role. I Don't Want Anybody To Say, Oh, She Can't Pull This Off. So Those Are Barriers That You Have To Overcome.

Stupid

Names

People

I Think The Best Partner For You Is Someone Who Makes You Want To Be The Best Form Of Yourself.

Thinking

Being The Best

It's Like Every Day Is The Worst Day Of Your Life. And You're Trapped And You're Scared And You Have To Portray Those Emotions In Every Take And Really Take Yourself To Those Places. (about Her Role As An Abused Wife In Enough.

Wife

Roles

Scared

I Have No Ego. There Is No Way You Can Have A Big Ego And Survive In This [show]business. You Can't Learn If You Think No One Else Has Anything To Say That's Of Value.

Thinking

Ego

Way

Lifes Too Short To Live The Same Day Twice.

Life Too Short

Too Short

You Mirror What The World Mirrors To You.

Mirrors

World

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!

Style

Influence

Grew Up

It Was Easy To Blame Other People For Treating Me In Ways I Didn't Like, But Now I Was Seeing That I Was The One At Fault. The Only Way You Can Be Mistreated Is By Allowing Yourself To Be Mistreated, And That Was Something I Did Over And Over Again. Somehow, I Needed To Find That Glimmer Of Self-respect, Buried Deep Inside, That Would Allow Me To Say: I Am Never Going To Let That Happen To Me Again. I Needed To Learn How To Stand Up For Myself In A Different Way, But I Didn't Know How.

Self

People

Way

It's Not That I Didn't Love Myself Before. Sometimes We Don't Realize That We Are Compromising Ourselves. To Understand That A Person Is Not Good For You, Or That That Person Is Not Treating You In The Right Way, Or That He Is Not Doing The Right Thing For Himself - If I Stay, Then I Am Not Doing The Right Thing For Me. I Love Myself Enough To Walk Away From That Now.

Breakup

I Love Myself

Way

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.

Daughter

Mother

Kids

The Best Part Of Having Two Babies At Once, A Son And A Daughter, Is Mostly Everything. You're Just Having That Feeling Of Love Inside You All The Time And Motherhood Is Such A Fulfilling Place To Be. I Kind Of Wish It Would Have Happened To Me Earlier In My Life.

Inspiring

Mom

Daughter

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.

Pain

Thinking

Years

For Me, Love Is The Never-ending Question. It Is Confusing. It Is The Answer, But It Is Also Inundated With Contradictions And Complications.

Love Is

Confusing

Answers

But The Idea Of Taking Things And Mixing Them Together Is What I Do In My Music. I Take Hip-hop, R&b, Pop, Dance, Funk And Soul And Mix It All Together To Get My Own Sound.

Inspirational

Dance

Ideas

It's Like Being In The Middle Of A Tornado. It's Like, Whooooooosh, You Know What I'm Saying? It's Like Dorothy-you Wake Up And Find Yourself In The Land Of Oz.

Land

Finding Yourself

Wake Up

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.

Careers

Looks

Done

When I Turned 40, I Was Like, Huh. I Accept Myself More Now. It Was Much More Comforting.

Comforting

Age

Accepting

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!

Feels Just

People

Actors

I Love A Massage And A Bath. I Don't Drink - I'll Have A Sip, But I've Never Been Drunk - And I Don't Smoke. I Envy People Who Have Those Releases. They Just Have A Drink Or A Cigarette, And They Feel Better. I Have To Brave It Through The Whole Day On My Own.

Feel Better

People

Drunk

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?

Mother

Thinking

Average

You Get To A Point In Life Where It Suddenly Occurs To You That You Don't Need All The Things You Once Thought You Did--that It's Really, Well, Convoluted. My Life Feels Overblown Sometimes, And I Don't Want It To Be. I Want It To Be Streamlined. So I'm Living A Much More Unscripted Life Now Than I Have In A Long Time.

Long

Needs

Want

I Was Into Sports And Dancing. I Ran Track. I Have A Lot Of Stamina.

Sports

Track

Dancing

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.

Real

Kids

Love Is

Maybe I'll Have Something Out By Christmas, Maybe Not. I Don't Know, I'm Really Trying To Take My Time And Do What Feels Right. (about The Next Step In Her Music Career)

Careers

Trying

Things Don't Always Turn Out Exactly The Way You Want Them To Be And You Feel Disappointed. You Are Not Always Going To Be The Winner. That's When You Have To Stop And Figure Out Why Things Happened The Way They Did And What You Can Do To Change Them.

Want

Way

Winner

Doubt Is A Killer. You Just Have To Know Who You Are And What You Stand For.

Inspirational

Inspiring

Success

The Weirdest Thing About Me Is That I Like To Walk Around Naked.

Naked

Walks

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.

Jobs

Thinking

People

There Are Certain People That Are Marked For Death. I Have My Little List Of Those That Treated Me Unfairly.

People

Littles

Lists

When Something Bad Happens Is When You Really Learn. It Causes Self-examination, It Causes You To Take A Look At Yourself. You Naturally Start Analyzing. It's Not That You're Wrong; It's That Sometimes You Just Need To Make Adjustments. Change Your Way Of Thinking, Change Your Way Of Doing, Change Your Way Of Choosing.

Thinking

Self

Analyzing

I Have The Stardom Glow.

Glowing

Stardom

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.

Fall

What If

Boxes

My Hair And Makeup People And Stylists Have Changed Over The Years, But They All Know Sometimes I Want To Do Marilyn, And On Another Day I Want To Do Jackie O. Though Sometimes I Look Back And Have To Say, "wow! What Were We Thinking There?"

Makeup

Thinking

Hair

I Have My Own High Standards For What I Want In A Partner And How I Want To Be Treated. I Bring A Lot To The Table. I'm Not Talking About Material Things But What I Have To Offer As A Person - Love And Loyalty And All The Things That Make A Good Relationship.

Loyalty

Talking

Good Relationship

I Know It's Hard For Women To Tap Into That Feeling Of Self-worth. We Need To Get The Message Out That You Are Valued, You Are A Goddess And Don't Forget That.

Self Worth

Empowering

Feelings

I'm Very Comfortable With Being Productive. I Like Doing Things, And I Like Creating Things.

Creating Things

Creating

Comfortable

I Like To Maintain A Certain Sense Of Fantasy. At Home, Do I Have The Full Hair And Makeup? No. But I Might Have The Nice Dress On.

Nice

Home

Makeup

I Had A Lovely Pregnancy. It Was A Beautiful, Magical Time For Us.

Beautiful

Pregnancy

Lovely

I Know That Being Seen As A Role Model Means Taking Responsibility For All My Actions. I Am Human, And Of Course, Sometimes I Make Mistakes. But I Promise That When I Fall, I Get Back Up.

Mistake

Fall

Responsibility

I Have To Work, For My Soul.

Soul

Obsession

My Soul

I Had A Healthy Appetite [being Pregnant]. I Got More Healthy As Time Goes On, And They Grew. I Never Let Myself Go.

Healthy

Goes On

Appetite

I Could Serve Coffee Using My Rear As A Ledge.

Coffee

Ledges

I Think Some People Just Use Pregnancy As An Excuse To Really Pig Out. To Be Really Disgusting. I Am Just Going To Eat This Is My Opportunity. I Waited For This My Whole Life. I Was Not One Of These People.

Pregnancy

Thinking

Opportunity

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. Were Loved, So People Want To Be Around Us. The Fear Of Being Alone Drives My Life.

Thinking

People

Dying

The Weirdest Thing About Me Is That I Like To Walk Around Naked. I Grew Up Walking Around Naked In My House. My Mom Was Like That, And My Sisters. My Father Worked Nights And Slept During The Day, So We Had No One To Hide From.

Mom

Father

Night

I Think The Best Partner You Can Have Is Someone Who Makes You Want To Be The Best Form Of Yourself.

Thinking

Want

Being The Best

I Kind Of Feel Like Everybody Knew Anyway. I Was On Tour With A Bubble Gut!

Kind

Feels

Guts

I Really Felt The Growth Of Myself As A Human Being, As A Person [becoming A Mother].

Mother

Growth

Becoming

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

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Conclusion

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