Ice T Quotes

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Winners have to absorb losses.

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

Diet food is for lazy people.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.