It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is ladies and gentlemen. In this country you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
With acting you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy and have the cameras rolling.
You wanna get the truth out of me get me hammered.
If you wanna know how not secure you are just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology I don't hate hackers because that's just what comes with it without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve especially security.
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder everybody loves you because you're not competition.
If any movie people are watching this show please for me have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets act like you know what you're talking about.
I want to say a little something that's long overdue the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal the British director.
Some mornings you wake up and think gee I look handsome today. Other days I think what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
Now I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give and maybe some hope to others.
I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40 000 pieces. And when you finish it it says 'go outside.'
I wear a necklace cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house nice family the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins my brothers my sisters they don't wanna move out.
Even though I have a nice house nice family the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins my brothers my sisters they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better but I'm good.
I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J but at the same time I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way not claiming to be the best at this or that but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas nerved and blooded with emotions all held together by the delicate tough skin of words.