Queen Latifah Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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- Acting,
- Aids,
- Babies,
- Brothers,
- Character,
- Children,
- Decisions,
- Doing The Right Thing,
- Emotions,
- Failing,
- Focus,
- Fun,
- Giving,
- Good Times,
- Growing Up,
- Hip Hop,
- Home,
- House,
- Inspirational,
- Mom,
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“Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.”
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“I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.”
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“You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.”
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“God has always been in my life and his little voice in me that lets me know when I'm falling a little too far left or right, up or down. I know because there is a little voice that starts saying 'Dana, what are you doing? You need to slow down with that.' So God will do this to me in some sort of way or something bad will happen to me.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.”
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“The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“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 -
“It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“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.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“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 -
“When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“When you have a family as big as mine, there are many things that affect my family members, in many different ways. It could be high blood pressure, it could be cholesterol, it could be obesity, it could be sleep deprivation or sleep apnea. An illness is an illness, especially if it affects younger kids. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy, just as my family members want me to be healthy.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“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 -
“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“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.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.”
-- Queen Latifah -
“For 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.”
-- Queen Latifah
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