When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when. Beyonce Knowles More Quotes by Beyonce Knowles More Quotes From Beyonce Knowles Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe. Beyonce Knowles running fun character To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me. Beyonce Knowles able stills world I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage. Beyonce Knowles stage talent cutting I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' Beyonce Knowles feminism feminist needs I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am. Beyonce Knowles core who-i-am listening To me it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym. I feel best when I'm not really thin and not really heavy - when I'm still curvy. Beyonce Knowles curvy like-you looks I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet. Beyonce Knowles strange shy quiet I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone. Beyonce Knowles tired men thinking It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range. Beyonce Knowles movie real character Have your own life before you become somebody's wife. Beyonce Knowles wife Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar. Beyonce Knowles silhouettes sexy body Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having a sexy image when you are on stage means that you don't love God. No one knows what I'm really like from that. I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair. I'm always so glammed up and so diva on stage and that's what they see. People don't understand that... No one knows my personal relationship with God and it's not up to me to prove that to anyone. Beyonce Knowles sexy real mean So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love. Beyonce Knowles empowering minorities inspire The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive. Beyonce Knowles feminist artist mother We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date. Beyonce Knowles mother numbers birthday When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it. Beyonce Knowles writing song children My daughter introduced me to myself. Beyonce Knowles my-daughter daughter I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way. Beyonce Knowles independent jobs children When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things. Beyonce Knowles fans stars people I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. Beyonce Knowles ocean beach thinking
