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 LATIFAHFor me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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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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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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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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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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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 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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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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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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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 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.
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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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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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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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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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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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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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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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Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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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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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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