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My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.
Ice Cube
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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.
Ice Cube
You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Ice Cube
I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.
Ice Cube
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
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I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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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.
Ice Cube
You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.
Ice Cube
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
Ice Cube
Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys its a package. You like a woman, shes got kids, its a package. You cant just go in one-sided. Its pretty cool.
Ice Cube
I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.
Ice Cube
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
Ice Cube
I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.
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