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"Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were."
"I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past."
"I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine."
"I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen."
"I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients."
"Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!"
"You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done."
"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."
"I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young."
"If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris."
"When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think."
"I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished."
"You don't have to be super clean to be a super star"
"I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music."
"I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood."
"I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end."
"Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous."
"I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all."
"I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV."
"I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies."