Ice-T Quotes

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

Diet food is for lazy people.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.