A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish Cameron
Diaz would have done more with.
I could
serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.
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.
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.
I was
always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For
me, it's all just one thing.
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.'
It makes me
laugh when she says Salma
Hayek got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what
she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing.
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.
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.
This film
[the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my
songs.
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.
This film certainly is not
meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.
I was always a singer and a
dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one
thing.
Nail Polish (upon being asked
what she got on her SAT's)
When I'm not prepared, which
is almost never. -when asked if she ever feels insecure
I don't really check out other
people's butts.
I'm not mad about my ankles -
they're too skinny.
We've all had a love of our
life and failed love affairs. I'm just the biggest romantic - it's
really sad. I tell people that, but nobody listens.
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.
In every movie they want you
to look as thin as you can look. In Selena, it was the other way around:
How can we shoot her butt so it looks like Selena's?
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.
If you focus on the money,
you're not going to get anywhere. You can want to be successful, but at
the end of the day, if money is your motivation, if that's how shallow
your outlook is on life, then you're going to be such an empty person.
Because there's nothing driving you from the inside -- there's no
passion...
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.
I think crossroads come at
many times during your life. Up to this point, I've had several. You get
to a certain point in your life and you're like, Am I supposed to be
doing this? And it's usually in the face of some failure - something
that didn't work out the way you wanted it to. And you're faced with a
decision: Do I keep trying to do this or do I give up?
Beauty is only skin deep. I
think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and
spirit. Somebody 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.
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.
I was in third grade when
Rapper's Delight changed my life. But when I came home, my mother would
be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include
all those elements in my music.
I didn't expect it to happen
like this, wrapping one film and flying out to do a new one the next
day. But I'm fresh enough and ambitious enough to stay up all night for
the sake of a job. I'm not gonna take it easy. I want to do so much more
when I'm getting these great opportunities.
I'm trying to get the focus
back on what I do as an artist, not what I do at home.
It was all a bit mad. For a
girl like me, wearing gorgeous clothes and having all this attention was
amazing. It was like being a princess. But it didn't take me long to realize
that that sort of fame can be scary. The more the circus builds up
around you, the more you start to lose all those intentions that get you
there in the first place. I was always about being a good performer and
working hard, doing movies, making music, but that started to get lost
in all that crazy stuff.
I throw myself into love
because I believe in it, but when things don't work you have to take
responsibility. You all know things have gone wrong for me. Everybody
has laughed, everybody has had a knock at me. It hurts, it always does.
There have been times when I didn't want to be me any more. From the
outside looking in, it may have appeared that it was a glamorous
exciting life, but I would have swapped places with anybody. It really
did start to get to me and the easy thing to do would be to walk away.
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.
A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish