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 LATIFAHWhen 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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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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I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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instinct leads me to another flow.
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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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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 learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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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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When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.
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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 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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