I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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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 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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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 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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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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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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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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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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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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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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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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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