Queen Latifah

I know what it’s like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it’s not something I’m striving for at the moment.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that’s meant a life of one-nighters.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all his things. But he is my biggest pride.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

I pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

I’m convinced that what kids need today are parents – not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

She does have a very nice figure… If [Ivanka] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.