To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
QUEEN LATIFAHSometimes 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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Life’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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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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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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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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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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instinct leads me to another flow.
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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 don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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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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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 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!’
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