Ice Cube Quotes

If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It's always extra cool... always a treat.

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

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

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

It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

I care about what I look like on the red carpet.

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.