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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

Queen Latifah

So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Chance Opportunity Yourself
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Job Myself Person Strong Woman
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Difficult Myself Training Transition
I often find it’s just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It’s how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Confidence Feeling Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
QUEEN LATIFAH

Regret Serious Talk Yourself
I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Myself Natural
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Help Ourselves People Success Talent
Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Different Myself Offering Woman Women Empowerment
I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Break Home Music Myself Writing
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Angry Difficult Feeling Myself Position Understand
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Disappointment Failure Growth Help Miserable Myself
You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Children Doubt Inspirational Myself Power

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

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