I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
People say we’re all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She’s from New York. She doesn’t have an accent. Some of these Latin people – their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.
I like being a mother. For some people, it’s so much work that it can be a burden. But it’s not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
I think it’s nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn’t ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
When I’m doing a movie, that’s when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That’s why I make so many.
It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.
It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don’t get them because I have an accent.
Life, I’ve got lots of friends. I don’t complain.
I might not be famous one day. But I’d still be happy.
When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn’t take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they’d ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn’t believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.
There’s a lot about the character. It doesn’t always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public – keeping it as personal as it can be. It’s the only way it is real.
I was an illegal immigrant.
Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I’m alone.
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
I realize now that I’ve hoped to be great – as an actress, as a mother – because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn’t get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They’re a part of me.
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
The truth is, I just don’t have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
Don’t try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.