Ice Cube Quotes - Page 9

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.

The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.

I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.

To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid.

I don't know what's my first real memory. When you're little, you're always looking forward to days that are special, like Christmas, birthdays, the Fourth of July, and family gatherings. But I can't pinpoint my earliest memory.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.