LL Cool J Quotes

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LL Cool J

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 14, 1968

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

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There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

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Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

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I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

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Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

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What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

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I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

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The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

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At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

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I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

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We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

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I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

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Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

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What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

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I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

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