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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.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
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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.
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I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.
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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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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.
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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.
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Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
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When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.
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I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.
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I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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