Top 120 Ice Cube Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It’s played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they’re always using music. And it goes together, you know.”

— Ice Cube

102. “I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times it’s leftovers from one of my wife’s dinners.”

— Ice Cube

103. “It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He’s such a pro. He’s so good.”

— Ice Cube

104. “A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.”

— Ice Cube

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

— Ice Cube

106. “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

107. “I still enjoy doing music. I’m not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.”

— Ice Cube

108. “I always want to read the script before I totally commit.”

— Ice Cube

109. “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

110. “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.”

— Ice Cube

111. “Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.”

— Ice Cube

112. “For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.”

— Ice Cube

113. “I don’t listen to nothing while I’m in the studio, because I don’t want to be influenced by anybody else.”

— Ice Cube

114. “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

115. “I’m not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?”

— Ice Cube

116. “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

117. “I’ve got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain’t going nowhere. I’m going to die with that in my casket.”

— Ice Cube

118. “Rapping is talking and communicating, and that’s always good.”

— Ice Cube

119. “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

120. “Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.”

— Ice Cube

121. “We don’t do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it’s nice, but it’s not something you should dwell on.”

— Ice Cube

122. “I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.”

— Ice Cube

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

— Ice Cube

124. “The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I’d started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.”

— Ice Cube

125. “Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.”

— Ice Cube

126. “It’s easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.”

— Ice Cube

127. “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

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

— Ice Cube

129. “I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.”

— Ice Cube

130. “I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.”

— Ice Cube