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 LATIFAHLife’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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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Always follow your own path.
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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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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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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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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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There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.
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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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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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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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