Ice Cube Quotes

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

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.

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.

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.

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

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.

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

Today I didn't even have to even use my A.K ! I got to say it was a good day

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

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

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

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

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

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea.

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

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.