Quotes About Influence

If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I was not a queen bee, ever.

I'm queen of mentorship.

I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

I would love to grab roles like the ones my mom did in 'Oppol' or the role Kangana Ranaut played in 'Queen.'

Be it 'Jhalak,' 'Dance India Dance' or 'Nach Baliye,' I give all the credit to Ekta Kapoor as, just because of her, I am here. She has an eye to identify the real talent. Instead, I would say she knows how to make things work for her. She is not simply called the queen of Indian Television: she is the tigress of TV, I would say.

When you stop to take a minute and look at Queen Latifah's career, she came out of the box right. You know, 'Ladies First!' And she's been consistent with that message of female self-empowerment. She really has!

Lauryn Hill. I admire her bravery and her strength. Hands down to the queen.

The only queen I know is my mum.

Madonna is my absolute queen - as a performer, there's no one better than her.

I like Queen Latifah.

Oprah is the queen!

People say to me, 'What do you think your mother would think about this new world with Instagram?' And I pause and I just say, 'Well, she really was the queen of Instagram because she was more photographed than anyone else.'

As a politician, I felt like a servant, but in the film industry, I feel like a queen.

Bob was the king, and as his queen I must carry on.

Everything about my brand is where I am from like the title of my album 'Queen of Da Souf'... I always credit my city because that is my brand.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.