Queen Latifah Quotes

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

I think acting is a gift.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

I think a lot of acting is having the confidence to be open enough to try things and not be afraid of falling on your face and looking like a fool.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I'm mad creative for acting.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don't pretend that I'm anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it's very liberating.

I started singing before I started tweeting, actually. It was always a passion... I started singing, and then I got into acting. Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.