Best 143 quotes of Ice-t on MyQuotes

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

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

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 car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

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.

Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

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.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

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.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

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

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

Diet food is for lazy people.

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

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.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously.

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

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.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

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

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 different ways. It's a big world.

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

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

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

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

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 have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.