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I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
Character Actor
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Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball... Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.
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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.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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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.
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My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it but it was my transportation.
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Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys it’s a package. You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided. It’s pretty cool.
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You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.
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I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.
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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?
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Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.
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I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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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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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
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You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.
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