Quotes By Ice T

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

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.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

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 to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

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

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

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

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.