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.
QUEEN LATIFAHI’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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 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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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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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 am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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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 feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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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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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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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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