Ice Cube Quotes

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

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 do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

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.

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

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.

The movie industry is one big collaboration.

Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

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.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

I think you have to find how the machine can work for you.

That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.

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

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

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. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.

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

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

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

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

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.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really.

Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

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.

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.

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.

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

If the day did not require an AK then it was good

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.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there.

There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too.

And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

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.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal.

I've done movies for certain reasons;

I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

My problem is that I never get through the whole book.

I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

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.

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 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.