417 Quotes by Jennifer Lopez

It’s a shame to call somebody a ‘diva’ simply because they work harder than everybody else.

As painful as some of the past year’s changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

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!

My favorite holiday is my birthday-it’s very Leo.

I think that’s what a partnership is – you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

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.

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.

If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they’re true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.

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.