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

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.

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