* “Faith has helped me to be a strong person and stay level headed. It brings me peace. In this business you definitely need peace.”

* “On her dog Daisy: “She goes with me everywhere. It`s preparing me to be a mother, I think.””

* “I don`t really care what I`m famous for. As long as I get to do the movie roles I want to do and still make records.”

* “On plastic surgery: “I`m not against plastic surgery. I do believe that it becomes an addiction to people. But if you`re doing it for yourself, then you`re doing it for yourself. If you`re doing it to make heads turn when you walk down the street and get noticed, then I think that`s a bunch of BS.””

* “I`m such a sucker for sappy songs. I`m a big romantic, and I love love. I love singing about it and listening to songs about it”

* “I don`t want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, `That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.`”

* “Why go through your life with regrets? Every decision you make determines who you are. If you make a bad one, you fix it. It makes you stronger.”

* “Natural beauty is really happiness with who you are. It you like who you are on the inside, that`ll come through on the outside.”

* “Twenty-three is old. It`s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”

* “I had doors slammed in my face as a 14-year-old because my boobs were too big. on the perils of being a curvaceous Christian pop star”

* “After 9-11, I knew that I never ever wanted to be away from Nick ever for the rest of my life.”

* “My first kiss was when I was 14. I could tell it was coming because Jason picked up a handful of mints. We had been going out for over a year, so it was really special.”

* “I want people to fall in love with my voice before my image.”

* “Nobody deserves to be treated like a princess 100 percent of the time – not even me!”

* “Nick and I have gotten a lot of attention for doing a `reality` show on television, but the ability to give a child his or her smile back is the kind of reality that really deserves the attention. We are both so happy to play a small part in the wonderful work Operation Smile does for children. – on Operation Smile.”

* “My mom was really worried I`d grow up looking strange, so every night before I went to bed, she`d pull my legs and stretch them so they`d be in proportion with the rest of my body.”

* “I`m right there ready to explode… or I could go pfffffft. No one could ever hear from me again. – about how successful her future album may be.”

* “Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! Ditzy is not editing yourself.”

* “I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I`m certainly not denying that I`m young, but I`m not fluff.”

* “I have this fear of talking to people. I`m worried they won`t like me. I`ve always had that insecurity. I tried to go up to Céline Dion at the Billboard Awards last year. She was right there, but I couldn`t do it. – CosmoGIRL, February 2001”

* “I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I`m certainly not denying that I`m young, but I`m not fluff.”

* “I want to be a diva… like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around.”

* “I`d go to concerts and think, `That`s exactly what I want to do.`”

* “Everybody from my record label to my father as my manager was like, `Don`t get married.` But when I got married my career began.”

* “I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going. – about losing a spot on “MMC” (1989) to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.”

* “You`ve done a nice job decorating the White House. Introducing herself to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton in December 2004.”

* “You lot are the most ridiculous looking men I have ever seen in my life”

* “But somehow I feel like still it’s a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.”

* “English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don’t know that I’m from China. They think I’m from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they’re starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.”

* “I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.”

* “I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it’s something I love.”

* “I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts… but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.”

* “I think sometimes I’m more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you’re always hurrying. And sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m here and there.”

* “I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don’t know if that’s good or not, because where I come from, sex isn’t something you’re allowed to talk about.”

* “I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life; it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.”

* “I’m very private in person. I’m very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I’m talking, maybe there’s this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.”

* “Sex is the best high. It’s better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.”

* “Yeah, well my name is . That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I’m not existing.”

* “Of course Japan is no longer that what I read in books about it. Like the Borg used to say, …resistance is futile. you will be assimilated…. It has been transformed in an all American colony. I wish Japan would have more respect for its own identity, culture and tradition. So I was deeply thankful that an American movie like The Last Samurai could come unbanned into existence.”

* “Photography is something like mathematics. When you obtain a perfect geometry of elements inside your frame, every picture will be beautiful or impressive, whatever the subject is. To obtain that geometry you sometimes have to move your lens for only one millimeter, sometimes you have to go in angles unsought before. That geometry strangely resonates inside people, it’s a thing we are born to detect. [on her cinematography for Dream Drop (2004)]”

* “Make yourself a light. Rely upon yourself and don’t depend upon anyone else.”

* “The staff people are the ones that work the hardest. They come at the shooting place hours before the cast, to set up and leave hours later, after everything has been finely cleaned and packed away. They are the ones to freeze outside in the cold, to be drenched by rain scorched by the sun. But the entire glory goes to director and stars. In the essence, everyone is just a human. How could I accept to have this tiny, tired, overworked assistant girl hold the parasol for me without feeling ashamed in my heart about this unfair world we are living in. [on shooting for Peanuts (2006)].”

* “And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.”

* “This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I`ve worked with Robert Redford.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it`s all just one thing.”

* “I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it`s all just one thing.”

* “You can`t take life for granted.”

* “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.”

* “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.`”

* “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.”

* “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 realise 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.”

* “You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.”

* “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 loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.”

* “I`m not mad about my ankles – they`re too skinny.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “As an artist, I don`t think I`ll ever feel totally satisfied. Maybe one day I will. But right now that`s not the feeling I have.”

* “It`s a shame to call somebody a `diva` simply because they work harder than everybody else.”

* “I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.”

* “It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that`s good enough for me.”

* “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.”

* “I`m very open with my love. I`m passionate and I feel a lot, and I`m never afraid to get close to someone. I`m not afraid of love.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.”

* “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.”

* “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`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.”

* “I`m trying to get the focus back on what I do as an artist, not what I do at home.”

* “I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.”

* “I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That`s what my life was.”

* “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.”

* “Beauty is only skin deep. I think what`s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.”

* “I have the stardom glow.”

* “J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That`s what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.”

* “You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “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?”

* “I don`t get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.”

* “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.”

* “There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.”

* “I don`t really check out other people`s butts.”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It`s about conquering that bear and letting him go.”

* “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?””

* “And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that`s okay.”

* “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 (2000) in August 2000”

* “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…”

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “Nail Polish (upon being asked what she got on her SAT`s)”

* “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.”

* “When I`m not prepared, which is almost never. -when asked if she ever feels insecure”

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

* “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.”

* “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.”

* “As an ambassador of Beatbullying I know that anyone can be a victim of bullying – it’s not embarrassing! Tall or short, skinny or big, they always find something to pick at. Don’t let them win. If you’re determined to make it, you can and you will.”

* “A few months ago I found out that I was going to have my own show, One Night Stand and I was so excited. Having the ‘One Night Stand with Pixie Lott’ vibe is quite crazy. It’s amazing to have the opportunity to play such big gigs to massive crowds compared to before when I was just performing to tiny little crowds, like my friends and family parties.”

* “I’m having such great fun turning my style ideas into an actual fashion range so am really excited to be launching my second collection with Lipsy. This time I’ve taken inspiration from some of my favourite style icons like Bridget Bardot and Eddy Sedgwick and what I love to wear out with my friends.”

* “Italia Conti is more about musical theatre and it’s not really the pop side of things, and that’s why I had to go out by myself.”

* “Four years ago, I went for an audition in The Stage newspaper that was looking for the ‘next pop diva’.”

* “I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak.”

* “It’s got the soul element, like Duffy, but it’s not very retro. It’s a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That’s what makes it different. [on her music.]”

* “People would go up to my mum and say, ‘you should do something with her’ and that’s how we realised I had a good singing voice.”

* “There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.”

* “I can’t wait for my new album to be released, it’s in the style of hot house disco. It will bring other elements to my sound, but keeping in the groove that I found with Neon Nights. I’ve been inspired by the pumping tunes of DJs working in Ibiza, Miama and Hot House destinations. I have worked with some of the same producers as Neon Nights, and some new ones. My main aim is heavy-fat-bass-lines, I love that thumping feeling. Hopefully I have topped Neon Nights, which was made with lots of love.”

* “Everyone has determination – it`s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn`t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we`re very, very different.”

* “Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn`t say, `This is really good, you should do this`, She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.”

* “Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn`t think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, `How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?`”

* “I couldn`t sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, `She`s cute, but she can`t sing very well` and he said, `I know. We`ll teach her. I just want her on the show`.”

* “It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.”

* “Since I`ve been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it`s really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.”

* “I`m not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I`m not doing this to get somewhere else. I`m doing it because I`m doing it.`”

* “It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.”

* “We were great mates. We didn`t really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.”

* “It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.”

* “I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.”

* “I always watched the show thinking, `Wouldn`t it be great to be a member?`, but I never thought it would happen.”

* “I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.”

* “I didn`t expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.”

* “They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn`t want there to be any jealously.”

* “Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you`re packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.”

* “The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.”

* “I knew at the time that that wasn`t the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don`t know.”