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" I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them. "

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" 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. "

" I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying. "

" The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. "

" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "

" When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. "

" 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. "

" You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. "

" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "

" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. "

" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "

" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "

" 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. "

" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "

" I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "

" I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. "

" 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. "

" I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "

" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "

" I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. "

" I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. "

" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "

" 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. "