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 LATIFAHI 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
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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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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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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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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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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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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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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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It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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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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Always follow your own path.
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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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