Tionne Watkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Role Models #Roles #Respect Yourself
I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Care #World
I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.
-- Tionne Watkins

#World #Problem #Prove
I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Attitude #Lying #Kids
I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Want
I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Baby #Nannies #Want
I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Mother #Wife #One Day
I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Groups #World
I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.
-- Tionne Watkins

#Mean #Writing #Artist

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.
Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.
The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

Tionne Watkins famous quotes

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