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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.

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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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.
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The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.
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Keep everybody out your business, that's how you do it. And I mean everybody. It ain't about having a relationship outside of the house. It's about having a relationship within each other. When something go down don't be calling your sister or your mother I'm not gonna be calling my brother or uncles. We're gonna work it out.
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Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.
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You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?
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No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?
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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.
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I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.
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You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
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I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.
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I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.
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I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
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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.
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I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.
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Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.
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