Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don’t think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them.

— Ice Cube

Ice Cube Quotes

Can’t step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can’t do that!

— Ice Cube

I been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

— Ice Cube

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.

— Ice Cube

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.

— Ice Cube

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren’t even fans.

— Ice Cube

I’ve never really taken myself too serious. That’s everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I’ve always said what I’ve felt, said what I thought was right, but I’ve always had a comedic bone.

— Ice Cube

I’m not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I’m going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.

— Ice Cube

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

— Ice Cube

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.

— Ice Cube

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

— Ice Cube
About Stories

To me, it’s my job not to laugh, no matter what’s said. By the time we shoot, I’m ready for all that’s coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

— Ice Cube

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.

— Ice Cube

I know I ain’t too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

— Ice Cube

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

— Ice Cube

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

— Ice Cube
Real

I don’t do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife’s macaroni and cheese.

— Ice Cube

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.

— Ice Cube
Real

Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don’t think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them.

— Ice Cube

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.

— Ice Cube

I’m a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

— Ice Cube
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