Ice Cube famous quotes

I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."
-- Ice Cube

#Girl #Brother #Men

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.
-- Ice Cube

#Journey #People #Obstacles

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.
-- Ice Cube

#People #You Like It #Stuck

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.
-- Ice Cube

#People #Want

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
-- Ice Cube

#Ice #Giving #Pieces

You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.
-- Ice Cube

#People #Office #Matter

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
-- Ice Cube

#Running #Lying #Truth Is

I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap #Kids #Careers

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
-- Ice Cube

#Frustration #Way #Music Love

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.
-- Ice Cube

#Thinking #Years #Fans

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
-- Ice Cube

#Book #Successful #Way

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?
-- Ice Cube

#Drama #People #Want

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
-- Ice Cube

#Ideas #Creating #People

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.
-- Ice Cube

#Way #Stealing #Not Sure

You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.
-- Ice Cube

#Falling In Love #Thinking #Giving

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
-- Ice Cube

#Dirty #People #Mud

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it." It's an easy way to escape responsibility.
-- Ice Cube

#Responsibility #Men #Devil

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
-- Ice Cube

#Reading #Thinking #Important

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.
-- Ice Cube

#Impact #Done #Matter

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
-- Ice Cube

#Smart #Climbing #People

Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them.
-- Ice Cube

#Thinking #Phones #Waiting

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
-- Ice Cube

#Son #Looks #My Son

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
-- Ice Cube

#House #Wake Up #Done

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
-- Ice Cube

#Art #Class #Doorways

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
-- Ice Cube

#Wall #Drinking #Eight

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.
-- Ice Cube

#Crazy #Writing #Creative

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
-- Ice Cube

#Funny #Dark #Records

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.
-- Ice Cube

#Government #People #Community

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
-- Ice Cube

#Beach #Hip Hop #Hips

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
-- Ice Cube

#Mirrors #Government #Causes

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
-- Ice Cube

#Stars #Worry #Good Work

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
-- Ice Cube

#Ghetto #People #Percentages

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
-- Ice Cube

#Thinking #Worst #Situation

It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.
-- Ice Cube

#Drama #Men #Track

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
-- Ice Cube

#Careers #People #Trying

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
-- Ice Cube

#Crazy #Reality #Voice

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
-- Ice Cube

#Grew Up #Bigs #Grew

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.
-- Ice Cube

#Real #Track #Comedy

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
-- Ice Cube

#Team #Rap #Artist

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.
-- Ice Cube

#Nice #School #Kids

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.
-- Ice Cube

#Promotion #Trailers

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
-- Ice Cube

#Want #Scripts #Commit

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap #Talking #Communicate

I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.
-- Ice Cube

#Real #Teenager #Writing

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.
-- Ice Cube

#Careers #Hollywood #Cost

People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.
-- Ice Cube

#Crazy #Clothes #People

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.
-- Ice Cube

#Thinking #Laughing #Make You Think

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap #Acceptance #Thinking

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.
-- Ice Cube

#Wife #Cooking #Cheese

I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap #Thinking #People

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
-- Ice Cube

#New York #Rap #Thinking

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.
-- Ice Cube

#Police #Hollywood #Stories

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
-- Ice Cube

#Crazy #Comedian #Looks

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.
-- Ice Cube

#Jobs #Laughing #Rehearsal

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
-- Ice Cube

#Boys #Perfect #Magic

Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.
-- Ice Cube

#Successful #Artist #Wish

I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.
-- Ice Cube

#Fun #Use #Making Money

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.
-- Ice Cube

#Rap #People #Fans

I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.
-- Ice Cube

#Taken #Listening #Serious

If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.
-- Ice Cube

#Animal #People #Giving