Barrino Fantasia Quotes & Sayings

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger. — Fantasia Barrino

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people. — Fantasia Barrino

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing. — Fantasia Barrino

Have a little faith. Don't give up. — Fantasia Barrino

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about. — Fantasia Barrino

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up. — Fantasia Barrino

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me. — Fantasia Barrino

Use a different approach to meet women than offering them a drink, stop insisting on dates that cost money, and show that you care for your woman by the way that you treat her, how you look at her, what you say to her, how you hold her, etc., instead of by buying her things. — W. Anton

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it. — Fantasia Barrino

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad. — Fantasia Barrino

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama. — Fantasia Barrino

Evie hadn't always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she'd cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O'NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers. — Libba Bray

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills. — Fantasia Barrino

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at. — Fantasia Barrino

'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that. — Fantasia Barrino

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go. — Dhani Jones

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different. — Fantasia Barrino

Sometimes you have to lose to win again. — Fantasia Barrino

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that. — Fantasia Barrino

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up. — Fantasia Barrino

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.' — Fantasia Barrino

Death is the one friend who never fails any man. — Evangeline Walton

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' — Fantasia Barrino

Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists. — Park Dietz

I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion. — Fantasia Barrino

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now ... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying. — Fantasia Barrino

You put your life on hold for me. And really, I get that. I appreciate that. But I'm not a baby anymore. Let go, Mom. — Jaci Burton

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing. — Fantasia Barrino

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E. E. Cummings

Why did things always have to feel so fleeting? — Kim Askew

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith. — Fantasia Barrino

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair. — Quinn Shephard

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits. — Doug Liman