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" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "

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" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

" I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. "

" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "

" I always argue with a lot of people. They ask me for my top rappers, and he's always on my list. I mean, the GZA inspired me. "

" That movie 'Hellraiser 2' - to me, that was the most evilest display of evil I've ever seen. I watched that movie ten times because I couldn't believe that each character became more evil than the other. "

" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "

" I got a bad habit of creating. "

" I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.' "

" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "

" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "

" When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then. "

" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "

" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

" It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.' "

" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "

" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "

" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "

" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "

" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "

" If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop. "

" I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it. "

" An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art. "

" I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "

" I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run. "

" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "

" Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that. "

" Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV. "

" Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life. "