Queen Latifah Biography

On herself:

"I've always been a person who cuts my own mould. I don't follow trends, I try to be current but I don't follow what everyone else is doing. Just because some rappers chose to sell the sex, I'm a big woman and I'm not going to embarrass myself by pulling my gut out. I can be sexy and sensual in my own way, besides, I think big chicks rule."

“I’m pretty much the same but trying to be better every day. I don’t think the success has gone to my head. I don’t think I’m alienating friends or losing friends.”

“It’s not about me trying to make records that I know are gonna hit. I kinda like to push the envelope and be more creative and bring something new to listen to.”

“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 at all.”

On family:

“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.”

Others:

“I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.”

“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.” [1996]

“I think it’s important to create projects as an actor rather than wait for them. I love being able to take an idea and sell it to a studio.”