You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
QUEEN LATIFAHI never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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 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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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 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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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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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 feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
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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.
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Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.
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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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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’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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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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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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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’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 think it’s important to raise your kids, start ’em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
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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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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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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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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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