354 Quotes by Beyoncé Knowles

When you’re famous no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. There’s nothing real about it.

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.

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.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

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.

We ain’t got nothing without love. That’s all we’ll have when the world is through. This world will know Satan. I am sorry for the end of your sins cause they’re going to live in hell. I follow Lucifer. Hail Satan.

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.

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.

I used to want you so bad, I’m so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!