J. Cole Quotes

I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me.

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

Some things are more important that life itself

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

How can I defend myself against what I want?

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP.

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.

I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well.