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Queen Latifah

I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Myself Natural
If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Family Job Myself
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
Always follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Follow Path Yourself
I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Help Ourselves People Success Talent
I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Capability Life Myself Realization Thinking
I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that’s why I became involved in management, bottom line.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Management Myself Power
Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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Different Myself Offering Woman Women Empowerment
There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Appearance Different Feeling
Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Day Death Live Move Stop Thinking Yourself
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Break Home Music Myself Writing
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Life Myself Parents Progression
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Confidence Feeling Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Limitation Music Myself
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Confidence Empowerment Feeling Goal Live Myself Woman
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Believe Stand Time Yourself
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Love Smart Time Yourself
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Build Character Easy Myself Right Strong
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 LATIFAH

Act Difficult Myself Training Transition
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Creation Different Mindset Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Greatness Live Place World
You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Advance Believe Connection People Vision Yourself

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