Queen Latifah famous quotes

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
-- Queen Latifah

#Thinking #Life Is #Bigger

I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
-- Queen Latifah

#Want #Financial #Unshakable

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

#Life #Sweet #Broken

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

#Thinking #Guy #Want

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
-- Queen Latifah

#Role Models #Want #Roles

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Long #Littles #Lasts

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
-- Queen Latifah

#Believe #Sometimes #Stand Alone

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

#Fall #Voice #Littles

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

#Strength #Self Respect #Looks

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

#Cousin #Hurt #Home

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Strong #Believe #Hip Hop

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.
-- Queen Latifah

#Perspective #Different #Good Things

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
-- Queen Latifah

#People #Looks #Way

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

#Men #Thinking #People

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

#Believe #Thinking #Life Is

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.
-- Queen Latifah

#People #Able #Employee

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

#Self Esteem #Trying #Helping

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

#Thinking #Trying #Accomplish

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

#World #Jersey #Talent

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
-- Queen Latifah

#Rap #Actors #Degrees

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

#Queens #Hey #Crowns

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

#Sleep #Kids #Blood

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
-- Queen Latifah

#Wish #Embrace #Given

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

#Moving #Thinking #Dying

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
-- Queen Latifah

#Regret #Learning #Perfect

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

#Self Esteem #People #Focus

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

#Fun #Real #Niece

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

#Pirate #Olives #Booty

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

#Queens #Taken #Family And Friends

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

#Mind #Doe #Bonus

I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
-- Queen Latifah

#Ideas #People #House

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

#Hate #Love You #Mirrors

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
-- Queen Latifah

#Class #Acting #Ham

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Teacher #Children #America

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

#Giving Up #Decision #Lines

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
-- Queen Latifah

#Beauty #Sexy #Hate

It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
-- Queen Latifah

#Connections #Looks

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
-- Queen Latifah

#Reality #Unique #Imperfection

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that. I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.
-- Queen Latifah

#Thinking #Dna #Succeed

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
-- Queen Latifah

#Inspirational #Fear #Past

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.
-- Queen Latifah

#Believe #Kids #Opportunity

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
-- Queen Latifah

#Christmas #Giving Up #Simple

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
-- Queen Latifah

#Moving #Focus #Challenges

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Home #Waiting #Sitting

When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on and so on, then we'll look at this thing [HIV/AIDS] for what it really is. It's a disease that's out to kill all of us. What will make it continue is our prejudices, our ideas about it, and the fact that we don't look at ourselves as one giant community.
-- Queen Latifah

#Race #Ideas #Community

Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.
-- Queen Latifah

#Destiny #Purpose #May

When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I'm not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It's really more about how I feel and about being healthy.
-- Queen Latifah

#Workout #Thinking #Healthy

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
-- Queen Latifah

#Dream #Reality #Mind

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.
-- Queen Latifah

#Looks #Should #Feels

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Kids #Shoes #Perfect

Always follow your own path.
-- Queen Latifah

#Path

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.
-- Queen Latifah

#Real #Firsts #Female

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

#Believe #Goal #Empowering

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

#Clothes #Necks #Looks

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
-- Queen Latifah

#Self #Brave #Enough

I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.
-- Queen Latifah

#Self Esteem #People #Trying

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
-- Queen Latifah

#Queens #Different #Offers

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
-- Queen Latifah

#Strong Women #Jobs #Pants

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

#Class #People #African American

Let your inner queen's voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you'll do her proud.
-- Queen Latifah

#Strong #Queens #Voice

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.
-- Queen Latifah

#People #Black #Dying

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
-- Queen Latifah

#Simple #Bigs #Stills

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
-- Queen Latifah

#Want #Improving Yourself #Masterpiece

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
-- Queen Latifah

#Serious #Way #Know Me

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
-- Queen Latifah

#Strong #Character #Easy

There are different flavours of sexiness.
-- Queen Latifah

#Different #Flavour #Sexiness

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.
-- Queen Latifah

#Insecure #Who I Am #Body

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.
-- Queen Latifah

#Mother #Daughter #Brother

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ***** whupped.
-- Queen Latifah

#Kids #Blow #Games

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
-- Queen Latifah

#Inspirational #Care #Stuff

I'd like to have and adopt [children]. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
-- Queen Latifah

#Mom #Children #Thinking

I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion
-- Queen Latifah

#Sexy #Being Yourself #Class

People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.
-- Queen Latifah

#Long #People #Next

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.
-- Queen Latifah

#Queens #Acting #Crowns