"Nail Polish" (upon being asked what she got on her SAT's)

"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" - Jennifer Lopez

"This film certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs" (about Cell, The (2000))

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

"I thought she'd 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." - to Redbook magazine August 1999, on the lesson in tough love she got from her mother.

"You laugh it off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go." - on the "outrageous" tabloid stories she hears about herself, at a press conference to discuss her movie, "The Cell" in August 2000

"I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge" - Jennifer Lopez