Jenna Dewan quotes:

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

I definitely believe in ghosts.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

If you consciously send negative energy toward someone, then what you send is exactly what you will attract upon yourself in your own life.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

I ate really well and I'm vegan. I breastfeed, so everyday I got more and more back to my prebaby shape, but knowing I was going to be filming [Wiches of East End] in six weeks was a nice little reminder.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

People shouldn't be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!