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.

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!

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Nobody wants to hear celebrity complain

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

Jennifer Lopez has been very much in the news because of her divorce from Marc Anthony, also a top singer, a top player in Latin music, her joining the cast of judges on "American Idol." But the music has not been at the forefront.