So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
QUEEN LATIFAHNew 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I’m proud of everything I do, but I think I’m the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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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 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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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
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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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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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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.
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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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Life’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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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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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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