Ice Cube
Keep everybody out your business, that's how you do it. And I mean everybody. It ain't about having a relationship outside of the house. It's about having a relationship within each other. When something go down don't be calling your sister or your mother; I'm not gonna be calling my brother or uncles. We're gonna work it out.Collection: Mother
I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.Collection: Fighting
I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?Collection: Drama
The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it's already there. You can see it with your own eyes.Collection: Real
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.Collection: School
Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.Collection: Sports
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.Collection: Grew Up
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.Collection: Want
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.Collection: Boys
Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.Collection: Kids
You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.Collection: Want
Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.Collection: Creating
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.Collection: Rap
It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.Collection: Drama
I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.Collection: Crazy
I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.Collection: Gumbo
You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.Collection: Yelling
I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.Collection: Summer
I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.Collection: Teacher
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.Collection: Thinking
I did Are We There Yet? because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.Collection: Kids
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.Collection: Believe
You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.Collection: Falling In Love
There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that SnorkelCollection: Giving
Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.Collection: Basketball
The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.Collection: Creative
Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.Collection: Being Yourself
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.Collection: Done
Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!Collection: Ice
You don't have to be super clean to be a super starCollection: Stars
I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.Collection: Fun
A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.Collection: Promotion
I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.Collection: Thinking
I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.Collection: Taken
Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys its a package. You like a woman, shes got kids, its a package. You cant just go in one-sided. Its pretty cool.Collection: Girl
Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.Collection: Police
With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.Collection: Real
You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.Collection: People
I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.Collection: Wife
Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?Collection: Thinking
I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.Collection: Crazy
I care about what I look like on the red carpet.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Hollywood
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.Collection: Running
You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.Collection: Millions
We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.Collection: Trying
To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.Collection: Easy