"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."
Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Eminem is a Grammy-winning rapper known for his impactful lyrics that explore themes of struggle, resilience, and personal growth, particularly in his album 'The Marshall Mathers LP'.
- Born
- October 17, 1972
- Quotes
- 326
- Rank
- #343
Quote collection
Eminem quotes (page 5 of 17)
326 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."
"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."
"Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing."
"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."
"Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now."
"Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control."
"Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found."
"My only scheme was to be a rapper."
"I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me."
"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."
"Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against."
"As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight."
"But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me."
"Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win."
"I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert."
"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."
"I was a smart kid, but I hated school."
"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap."
"Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive."