Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

What I don't understand is what America really wants.