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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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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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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.
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When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
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I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
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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.
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I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.
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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.
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You know, I say in my lyrics, Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white. It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.
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Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
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I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.
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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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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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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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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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I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.
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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.
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When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.
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I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
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