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 LATIFAHTo wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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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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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid – I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
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I’m proud of everything I do, but I think I’m the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
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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.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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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.
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I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
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Always follow your own path.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.
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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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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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instinct leads me to another flow.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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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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