I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, fo... by Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

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I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think abou... by Ice Cube

I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.

feels book thinking

Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.

hollywood add trying

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.

yelling acting littles

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

grew-up enough interesting

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling ev... by Ice Cube

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.

hours ifs

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

basketball baseball sports

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without a... by Ice Cube

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

hips hip-hop artist

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

rapper blessing thinking

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me... by Ice Cube

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

disco bigs grew-up

People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.

clothes crazy people

I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

nuts heart boys

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. by Ice Cube

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

music-is games sports

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

titles names perfect

I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

xbox skills games

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

rap hate school

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

girl simple men

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

adults trouble kids

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" by Ice Cube

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?"

ask-me rap hip-hop

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

people art thinking

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

hollywood cost careers