Quotes
 Abraham: We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It`s exhausting! Abie Quintanilla: What`s Dad gonna say?
Selena Quintanilla: [imitating Abraham] I don`t believe this, son! What were you thinking?
[scene switches]
Abraham Quintanilla: I don`t believe this, son! What were you thinking of? Who`s that laughing? Is that Selena? Listen, where are you?
Abraham Quintanilla: You were out there wearing a bra!
Selena Quintanilla: It`s not a bra!
Abraham Quintanilla: It`s a bra with little sprinkly things on it!
Abraham: No female has ever made it and now you`re number one. You cracked the Tejano market wide open. You walked into Mexico and they don`t even accept Mexican-Americans and they love you, and now?
Selena Quintanilla: And now... gringos. Disney World!
Abraham: You remember?
Selena Quintanilla: Uh-huh.
Abraham: And all the barriers that have stopped people before... and you went through them like they didn`t exist. Maybe for you they don`t exist. I love you, and I`m very proud of you.
Mexican Guy: Anything for Salinas!
Marcela Quintanilla: [Abraham is upset about Selena`s "Top Outfit"] It`s a bustier!
Abraham Quintanilla: Bustiquela? Es un bra!
Marcela Quintanilla: I think she looks cute.
Abie Quintanilla: So much for my bustier.
Selena Quintanilla: [their elopement has been heard on the radio and Chris tries to turn to the Corpus Christi entrance] Don`t go to Corpus, go the other way!
Chris Perez: Where are we gonna go, Alaska?
Selena Quintanilla: Anywhere but Corpus!
Selena Quintanilla: You know I was just thinking, I`ve never seen you dance. Do you dance?
Chris Perez: Dance? Oh yea, I dance. Yea I put on my white shoes and black jacket and dance like John Travolta.
Selena Quintanilla: Yea, well, we can dance this. Come on. Let me see you dance.
Chris Perez: I was just kidding.
Selena Quintanilla: I may not be street wise and all that, but at least I`m not that dumb!
[Chris eats pizza with Hot sauce]
Selena Quintanilla: Now you have to try some of mine.
Chris Perez: I don`t eat pepperoni, too hot.
Selena Quintanilla: I`ve been thinking about the crossover tour a lot. I`ve even had dreams about it. It`s just this whole different world for us, you know? We`ve been working for this ever since we were kids. I guess I`m a little scared...
[whispers]
Selena Quintanilla: Are they gonna love me, Mama?
Marcela Quintanilla: Yes, Mija, they`re gonna love you.
Trivia
Jackie Guerra wanted the part of Selena`s sister, Suzette, so badly that she lied at her audition, saying that she was an experienced drummer, when in fact she had never played the drums. After her inexperience was finally revealed, Selena`s real sister Suzette gave her private lessons.
Film used approximately 64,000 fans/extras, especially in the case of the stadium scene.
Selena`s historic Houston Astrodome concert was recreated at the San Antonio Alamodome.
To prepare for her role, Jennifer Lopez lived with Selena`s family
Salma Hayek was considered for the role of Selena, but she refused because she wanted to play Frida Khalo (in Frida (2002)) and did not wish to play two different Mexican heroines.
More than 20,000 girls auditioned for the roles of Selena at different ages.
Jennifer Lopez` became the highest paid Latina in Hollywood history by playing Selena, earning a then-unheard of, $1,000,000.
When `Jennifer Lopez` signed on to be Selena, she expected to be providing her own vocals. But it was felt that since the movie would be released so soon after Selena`s death her fans would not approve of hearing any voice other than hers. So Lopez was coached to lip-sync instead of being provided the vocal coaching she expected.
The studio where "I Could Fall In Love" is recorded in the movie, is Studio A in Q-Productions, where Selena actually recorded her English Album.
Among the actresses considered to play the title role were Leticia Miller, an unknown who bore a striking resemblance to Selena, and Bibi Gaytán, a Mexican soap opera actress (coincidentally, Selena had guest-starred on a soap opera Gaytán starred in, called "Dos mujeres, un camino").
In the scene where Chris Perez (played by Jon Seda) first appears, the close up of his hands playing the guitar are in fact the hands of the real Chris Perez.
Jennifer Lopez and Constance Marie play mother and daughter, when in real life, they are only four years apart.
The part in the movie when Chris and Selena are walking on the pier together, was shot in Aransas Pass, Texas at an old company called "Gulf King".
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Jennifer Lopez
(as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez)
with Jon Seda
(as Chris Perez)
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