Ice T Quotes

I got into acting kinda funny. I was in a club with some girl models when Mario Van Peebles walked over to me. He said 'I want you to be in a movie' and I was thinking, 'yeah right, you just wanna get down [with the girls]' The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City.

Yeah, well, you can only lie for so long, you know? And if you get out here and portray being a thug or a gangsta or whatever and you ain’t one, the streets are gonna walk up and touch you. It ain’t the smartest thing in the world to do... you gonna have to live with it.

I never really counted on my records or rap music to really eat. I mean, I never really said, ‘If I don’t get played on the radio, I’m not gon’ live.’ I was very smart with my money. I knew how to take my advance budget and if they was givin’ me a half a million dollars, I was makin’ my record for fifty grand.