Queen Latifah Net Worth

Queen Latifah's Quotes

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 me at all.
• 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.
• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Interesting Facts about Queen Latifah

1. Arrested for assaulting a photographer on February 6, 1996.
2. Arrested for carrying a loaded handgun and marijuana on February 3, 1996.
3. Was the victim of a carjacking, which also resulting in the shooting of her boyfriend, Sean Moon. [July 1995]
4. Older brother Lance Owens, who was a police officer, died in an accident on the motorcycle Latifah had bought for him as a present. She still wears the motorcycle key around her neck.
5. Co-founder of Flavor Unit Entertainment.
6. Had to coach her Bringing Down the House (2003) co-stars Steve Martin and Eugene Levy in hip-hop slang.
7. First female rapper to be nominated for an Academy Award.
8. Ranked #72 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
9. Was set to star in Monster's Ball (2001) alongside Robert De Niro with Sean Penn directing. Unfortunately, producers could not set up the film in time and it was delayed and recast. Her role went to Halle Berry and DeNiro's to Billy Bob Thornton.
10. Played power forward on the Irvington Public High School girls' basketball team and led them to two New Jersey state championships.
11. Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Actress category for her performances in the films Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), The Cookout (2004), and Taxi (2004). However, she failed to receive a nomination.
12. She won a Grammy Award in 1994 for Best Solo Rap Performance for "U.N.I.T.Y.".
13. She was nicknamed Latifah (Arabic for delicate and sensitive) by a cousin while she was in her teens.
14. D.J. Tocadisco's song "Nobody (Likes the Records That I Play)" is based on a sample from the film Juice (1992) spoken by Queen Latifah.
15. She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on January 4, 2006.
16. Had not done any musical theater since high school prior to her role as Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago (2002).
17. Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors," Volume 264, pages 284-285. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008.
18. Of all her roles to date (2008), her personal favorite is Cleopatra Sims from Set It Off (1996).
19. Under her birth name, Dana Owens, Queen Latifah and her longtime personal trainer, Jeanette Jenkins, bought a 2,026-square-foot, 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom Los Angeles home together in late 2009. The list price for the property was $1,397,000.
20. She told the audience at a 'Meet the Filmmaker' event at the Apple Store in SoHo, New York City, that her ideal first project as a director would either be a science-fiction film or a project based on a comic book (May 11, 2010).