Ice-T Quotes

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'