You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
QUEEN LATIFAHI never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
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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.
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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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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.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Always follow your own path.
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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 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 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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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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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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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.
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I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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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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