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" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "
Ice T
Rap
Able
Ten
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" Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. "
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Hollywood
Want
Cinema
" I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. "
Ice T
Born
Street
Parents
" My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. "
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Father
Mother
Aunt
" I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. "
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Always
Been
Movie
" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "
Ice T
Ice
Man
Nobody
" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "
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Need
Gun
Wants
" I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. "
Ice T
Lived
Things
Possibly
" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "
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Real
Possibly
Effort
" I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. "
Ice T
Difficult
Top
Think
" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "
Ice T
Growing
Go
Growing Up
" We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's. "
Ice T
Rap
Year
Groups
" I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives. "
Ice T
I Love You
Baby
Think
" I have to grow with my audience. "
Ice T
Grow
Audience
" When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.' "
Ice T
Teen
School
Man
" Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff. "
Ice T
Place
Out
Gangster
" My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.' "
Ice T
Me
Boy
Always
" My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. "
Ice T
Woman
Father
Hair
" 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. "
Ice T
You
Why
Want
" The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. "
Ice T
Yourself
Acting
Movies
" Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets. "
Ice T
Happy
Streets
Sounds
" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "
Ice T
Miles
Need
Understand
" My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. "
Ice T
Virginia
Brother
Quiet
" As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. "
Ice T
Cats
Rap
Long
" Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. "
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Culture
Radio
Play
" If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. "
Ice T
Go
Make
Movie
" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "
Ice T
United States
Country
Los Angeles
" Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg. "
Ice T
Short
Try
Know
" 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. "
Ice T
Play
City
Phone
" No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things. "
Ice T
Always
Me
Stay
" AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious. "
Ice T
Think
Scary
AIDS