Ice-T Quotes

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

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

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

You can't just sing the song and live another life.

Winners have to absorb losses.

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

I have to grow with my audience.

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.