"I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing"
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The key move is the last clause: “it’s all just one thing.” That’s not only about talent; it’s about control of narrative. In an industry that turns versatility into a liability (“pick a brand”), she treats performance as a single craft with multiple outlets. Singing, dancing, acting become different dialects of the same language: selling emotion, owning the camera, telling a story in three minutes or two hours.
The subtext is also defensive, and smartly so. Lopez has spent decades facing a specific kind of skepticism: the pop-star-as-product accusation, the insinuation that crossover success is marketing, not artistry. By collapsing categories, she recasts “multi-hyphenate” from opportunism to coherence. It’s a tidy argument for why her career makes sense: not a series of reinventions, but one continuous performance, tuned to wherever the audience is looking.
Quote Details
| Topic | Art |
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| Source | Quote attributed to Jennifer Lopez; listed on the Wikiquote page for Jennifer Lopez. |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lopez, Jennifer. (2026, January 17). I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-always-a-singer-and-a-dancer-and-i-always-31874/
Chicago Style
Lopez, Jennifer. "I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-always-a-singer-and-a-dancer-and-i-always-31874/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-always-a-singer-and-a-dancer-and-i-always-31874/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.





