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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."
"A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie."
"I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit."
"It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car."
"Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD."
"I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes."
"[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!""
"We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on."
"You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?"
"I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else."
"I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience."
"Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy."
"I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead."
"People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen."
"Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood."
"I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is."
"I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up."
"The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s."
"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."
"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."