Queen Latifah Quotes
I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'
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Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment even if you're stressed or hurt or whatnot. There's always tomorrow and it always gets better
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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I never think I'm going to lose.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
