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

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad..

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello.".

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this ….

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 t….

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

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

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live differe….

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back..

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

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..

What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my son….

Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense aga….

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I hear….

When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an o….

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things..

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff..

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 fortuna….

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you tho….

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I w….