When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
QUEEN LATIFAHSo often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.
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If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don’t know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
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I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.
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I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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