Queen Latifah Quotes

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the time you've shot what you need to shoot, you don't really have time to think or shoot anything else.

After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.